Mitochondrial relationships and divergence dates of the African colobines: evidence of Miocene origins for the living colobus monkeys

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 312-325

  Ting, Nelson ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology NYCEP   (United States)

Author keywords

Colobine; Colobine phylogeny; Colobine systematics; Colobus; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular systematics; Procolobus

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIMATE; TAXONOMY; VOCALIZATION;

AFRICA;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; COLOBINAE; COLOBUS; COLOBUS SP.; PRIMATES; PROCOLOBUS; PROCOLOBUS BADIUS;

EID: 48349104729     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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