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Tarsiidae

Known as: Tarsier, Tarsiers 
The single family of PRIMATES in the infraorder TARSII, suborder HAPLORHINI. It is comprised of one genus, Tarsius, that inhabits southern Sumatra… 
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Body size and scaling of the hands and feet of prosimian primates.
The hands and feet of primates fulfill a variety of biological roles linked with food acquisition and positional behavior… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Systematics of tarsiers and lorises
It seems probable that there are more species (in the sense of sharply diagnosable entities) than hitherto recognized among small… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Predation Experiments on Infant Spectral Tarsiers (Tarsius spectrum)
In this paper, I investigate how mother and infant spectral tarsiers, Tarsius spectrum, respond to the presence of potential… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Accelerated Evolution of Cytochrome b in Simian Primates: Adaptive Evolution in Concert with Other Mitochondrial Proteins?
Abstract We have sequenced the cytochrome b gene of Horsfield's tarsier, Tarsius bancanus, to complete a data set of sequences… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Myological correlates of prosimian leaping.
Although the skeletal correlates of vertical clinging and leaping behavior in primates have been studied in great detail… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Phylogeny and Evolution of Selected Primates as Determined by Sequences of the ε-Globin Locus and 5′ Flanking Regions
We studied phylogenetic relationships of 39 primate species using sequences of the ε-globin gene. For 13 species, we also… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Molecular phylogeny of the New World monkeys (Platyrrhini, primates).
Phylogenetic relationships among the 16 extant genera of Ceboidea (the New World monkeys) were examined using aligned epsilon… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
First skulls of the Early Eocene primate Shoshonius cooperi and the anthropoid-tarsier dichotomy
THE phylogenetic relationships of living tarsiers and extinct omomyid primates are critical for deciphering the origin and… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Morphometrics of the anterior dentition in strepsirhine primates.
Size variations in the anterior dentition were analyzed for 26 species of strepsirhine primates. The upper and lower incisor rows… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Biology of tarsiers
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