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Crossing the Red Sea: phylogeography of the hamadryas baboon, Papio hamadryas hamadryas.
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2004
Winney Bruce J, Hammond Robert L, Macasero William, Flores Benito, Boug Ahmed, Biquand Veronique, Biquand Sylvain, Bruford Michael W
Abstract excerpt
The hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas hamadryas) is found both in East Africa and western Arabia and is the only free-ranging nonhuman primate in Arabia. It has been hypothesized that hamadryas baboons colonized Arabia in the recent past and were possibly even transported there by humans. We investigated the phylogeography of hamadryas baboons by sequencing a portion of the control region of mtDNA in 107 baboons...
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