Background Phylogenetic relationships among Asian and African colobine genera have
been disputed and are not yet well established. In the present study, we revisit the …

To obtain a more complete understanding of the evolutionary history of the leaf-eating
monkeys we have examined the mitochondrial genome sequence of two African and six …

The African colobines represent a neglected area of cercopithecid systematics. Resolving
the phylogenetic relationships and estimating divergence dates among the living forms will …

Background Colobine monkeys constitute a diverse group of primates with major radiations
in Africa and Asia. However, phylogenetic relationships among genera are under debate …

Background The evolutionary history of the Asian colobines is less understood. Although
monophyly of the odd-nosed monkeys was recently confirmed, the relationships among the …

The phylogeny and classification of the red colobus monkeys (genus Procolobus; subgenus
Piliocolobus) remains one of the longest standing unresolved issues in African primate …

The phylogenetic position of the genus Semnopithecusis unresolved because of topological
incongruence when inferred using different molecular markers. Although some studies …

The two recently proposed taxonomies of the langurs and leaf monkeys (Subfamily
Colobinae) provide different implications to our understanding of the evolution of Nilgiri and …

Miocene to Pleistocene fossiliferous sediments in the Tugen Hills span the time period from
at least 15.5 Ma to 0.25 Ma, including time periods unknown or little known elsewhere in …

Evidence of incongruence between mitochondrial and nuclear gene trees is now becoming
documented with increasing frequency. Among the Old World monkeys, this discordance …