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Molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography of the white-fronted capuchin (Cebus albifrons; Cebidae, Primates) by means of mtCOII gene sequences.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 2010
Ruiz-García M, Castillo M I, Vásquez C, Rodriguez K, Pinedo-Castro M, Shostell J, Leguizamon N
Abstract excerpt
A total of 696 base pairs (bp) of the mitochondrial COII gene were sequenced from 118 individuals of Cebus albifrons (plus an individual of Cebus olivaceus) sampled from diverse geographical areas of Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil. These animals represented all of the C. albifrons's taxa described by Hershkovitz (1949) in Colombia and Peru (10 out of 13 subspecies are described by this author). The sequences...
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