[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman… - 2015 - palaeo-electronica.org
Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

Biogeography in deep time–What do phylogenetics, geology, and paleoclimate tell us about early platyrrhine evolution?

RF Kay - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2015 - Elsevier
Molecular data have converged on a consensus about the genus-level phylogeny of extant
platyrrhine monkeys, but for most extinct taxa and certainly for those older than the …

New World monkey origins

RF Kay - Science, 2015 - science.org
New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) appeared suddenly in South America in the middle
Cenozoic. Little is certain about their origin, but theories include an African source, either by …

[HTML][HTML] Primate tarsal bones from Egerkingen, Switzerland, attributable to the middle Eocene adapiform Caenopithecus lemuroides

ER Seiffert, L Costeur, DM Boyer - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
Abstract The middle Eocene species Caenopithecus lemuroides, known solely from the
Egerkingen fissure fillings in Switzerland, was the first Paleogene fossil primate to be …

Maximum ingested food size in captive anthropoids

JMG Perry, ML Bastian, E St Clair… - American journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Maximum ingested food size (Vb) is an empirically tested performance variable
that can shed light on feeding energetics and adaptation in the masticatory system. Until …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular evidence on primate origins and evolution

RL Raaum - Handbook of paleoanthropology, 2015 - researchgate.net
Molecular data have become an important source of evidence on primate evolutionary
history, particularly when the fossil evidence is limited or lacking. The most recent molecular …

[PDF][PDF] Anthracotheres (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the upper-most horizon of the Jebel Qatrani formation, latest Early Oligocene, Fayum depression, Egypt

AH Sileem, HM Sallam, AGA Hewaidy… - Egyptian Journal of …, 2015 - researchgate.net
New specimens of the large anthracothere Bothriogenys andrewsi from Quarry L-75, and
from another unnumbered locality are described. Both of these localities are near the top of …

[HTML][HTML] Drugging RNAi: RNAi therapeutics are emerging as a major drug discovery engine

D Haussecker, MA Kay - Science (New York, NY), 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
RNA interference (RNAi)–based drugs harness endogenous posttranscriptional gene
silencing pathways for therapeutic purposes. The goal is to turn down or shut off the …

Barevné vidění u primátů: Neurobiologie a chování

P Skalníková - 2015 - dspace.cuni.cz
Trichromatické vidění je barevné vidění realizované třemi typy čípků. Většina savců má
dichromatické vidění, trichromatické vidění se objevuje u primátů Starého světa (včetně …