Is the new primate genus Rungwecebus a baboon?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Zinner, Dietmar ^a   Arnold, Michael L ^b   Roos, Christian ^c  

^a Deutsches Primatenzentrum ^*  (Germany)

^b University of Georgia   (United States)

^c Primate Genetics and Gene Bank of Primates   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BABOON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEW GENUS; NONHUMAN; PAPIO; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SISTER GROUP; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS;

LOPHOCEBUS; PAPIO; PAPIO URSINUS; PRIMATES;

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PAPIO; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 63349098231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004859     Document Type: Article

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