The biogeography of introgression in the critically endangered African monkey Rungwecebus kipunji

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 233-237

  Roberts, Trina E ^a,b   Davenport, Tim R B ^c   Hildebrandt, Kyndall B P ^a,d   Jones, Trevor ^e,f   Stanley, William T ^g   Sargis, Eric J ^h   Olson, Link E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Tanzania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre   (Tanzania)

^g FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboons; Hybridization; Kipunji; Papio; Rungwecebus; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIMATE; TAXONOMY;

TANZANIA;

PAPIO;

EID: 77951490750     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0741     Document Type: Article

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