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Radiation and phylogeography in the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Mar 2004
Marmi Josep, Bertranpetit Jaume, Terradas Jaume, Takenaka Osamu, Domingo-Roura Xavier
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The Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) presumably differentiated from eastern rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) populations during the Pleistocene and the two species are closely related. In order to analyse speciation and subspeciation events in the Japanese macaque and to describe historical and current relationships among their populations, we sequenced and analysed a fragment of 392bp of mitochondrial DNA...
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