In response to the call for a human genome–evolution project (McConkey and Goodman
1997), the view has been expressed that what makes us human resides in the 1.5 …

Nonhuman primates (NHP) provide crucial biomedical model systems intermediate between
rodents and humans. The vervet monkey (also called the African green monkey) is a widely …

HIV-1, the cause of AIDS, is composed of four phylogenetic lineages, groups M, N, O, and P,
each of which resulted from an independent cross-species transmission event of simian …

Adulteration of high quality meat and meat products with their inferior/cheaper counterparts
is a problem in the meat industry. The present study investigated the use of polymerase …

Primate lentiviruses (PLV) from closely related primate species have been observed to be
more closely related to each other than to PLV from more distantly related primate species …

Although parasite–host co-speciation is a long-held hypothesis, convincing evidence for
long-term co-speciation remains elusive, largely because of small numbers of hosts and …

The identification of animal species used in industrial meat products is very important in
respect to economic considerations because European Union, which has implemented a set …

Traditional classifications of the Old World monkey tribe Papionini (Primates:
Cercopithecinae) recognized the mangabey genera Cercocebus and Lophocebus as sister …

MAMMALIAN mitochondria! DNA sequences evolve more rapidly than nuclear sequences1.
Although the rapid rate of evolution is an advantage for the study of closely related species …

USING oligonucleotide primers designed to match conserved regions of mammalian
mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) 1, we have amplified and sequenced two divergent cytochrome …