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Patterns of genetic variation within and between Gibbon species.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Aug 2011
Kim Sung K, Carbone Lucia, Becquet Celine, Mootnick Alan R, Li David Jiang, de Jong Pieter J, Wall Jeffrey D
Abstract excerpt
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...
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