A Molecular Phylogeny of Living Primates
- P. Perelman, W. Johnson, J. Pecon-Slattery
- BiologyPLoS Genetics
- 1 March 2011
The resolution of the primate phylogeny provides an essential evolutionary framework with far-reaching applications including: human selection and adaptation, global emergence of zoonotic diseases, mammalian comparative genomics, primate taxonomy, and conservation of endangered species.
Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: Why primates matter
- A. Estrada, P. Garber, Baoguo Li
- Environmental ScienceScience Advances
- 1 January 2017
Raising global scientific and public awareness of the plight of the world’s primates and the costs of their loss to ecosystem health and human society is imperative.
Primate jumping genes elucidate strepsirrhine phylogeny.
- C. Roos, J. Schmitz, H. Zischler
- BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 20 July 2004
It is concluded that strepsirrhines originated in Africa and that Madagascar and Asia were colonized by respective single immigration events.
Mitochondrial phylogeography of baboons (Papio spp.) – Indication for introgressive hybridization?
- D. Zinner, L. Groeneveld, C. Keller, C. Roos
- BiologyBMC Evolutionary Biology
- 23 April 2009
This study confirms earlier findings for eastern Africa, but shows that baboon species from other parts of the continent are also mitochondrially paraphyletic, which suggests a complex evolutionary history with multiple phases of isolation and reconnection of populations.
A Mitogenomic Phylogeny of Living Primates
- Knut Finstermeier, D. Zinner, C. Roos
- BiologyPLoS ONE
- 16 July 2013
One major result is a relatively young date for the most recent common ancestor of all living primates which was estimated to 66-69 million years ago, suggesting that the divergence of extant primates started close to the K/T-boundary.
Mitochondrial evidence for multiple radiations in the evolutionary history of small apes
- V. N. Thinh, A. Mootnick, C. Roos
- BiologyBMC Evolutionary Biology
- 12 March 2010
A more complete view of the evolutionary and biogeographic history of the hylobatid family is provided, and a more solid genetic basis for the taxonomic classification of the surviving taxa is shown.
Phylogenetic position of the langur genera Semnopithecus and Trachypithecus among Asian colobines, and genus affiliations of their species groups
- Martin Osterholz, L. Walter, C. Roos
- BiologyBMC Evolutionary Biology
- 25 February 2008
Neither relationships among the three langur genera nor their position within Asian colobines can be settled with 5 kb mitochondrial sequence data, but retroposon integrations confirm at least a common origin of Semnopithecus and Trachypithecus.
Molecular systematics of Indochinese primates
A solid platform for the classification of all the Indochinese primate taxa is established and among strepsirrhines, two slow loris species (N. pygmaeus and N. bengalensis) occur in Indochina.
Molecular phylogeny of the major hylobatid divisions.
- C. Roos, T. Geissmann
- BiologyMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- 1 June 2001
The authors' data show that the molecular distances among the four gibbon subgenera are in the same range as those between Homo and Pan, or even higher, and it is proposed to raise all four gibbonsSubgenera to genus rank.
Baboon phylogeny as inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes
- D. Zinner, Jenny Wertheimer, Rasmus Liedigk, L. Groeneveld, C. Roos
- BiologyAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology
- 1 January 2013
This study shows that complete mitochondrial genome sequences are more effective to reconstruct robust phylogenies and to narrow down estimated divergence time intervals than only short portions of the mitochondrial genome, although there are also limitations in resolving phylogenetic relationships.
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