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SUBMITTER: Kim SK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3144381 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Sung K SK Carbone Lucia L Becquet Celine C Mootnick Alan R AR Li David Jiang DJ de Jong Pieter J PJ Wall Jeffrey D JD
Molecular biology and evolution 20110302 8
Gibbons are small, arboreal, highly endangered apes that are understudied compared with other hominoids. At present, there are four recognized genera and approximately 17 species, all likely to have diverged from each other within the last 5-6 My. Although the gibbon phylogeny has been investigated using various approaches (i.e., vocalization, morphology, mitochondrial DNA, karyotype, etc.), the precise taxonomic relationships are still highly debated. Here, we present the first survey of nuclea ...[more]