Museomics and the holotype of a critically endangered cricetid rodent provide key evidence of an undescribed genus

S Castañeda-Rico, CW Edwards… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Historical DNA obtained from voucher specimens housed in natural history museums
worldwide have allowed the study of elusive, rare or even extinct species that in many cases …

A comprehensive overview of baboon phylogenetic history

GH Kopp, R Sithaldeen, F Trede, F Grathwol, C Roos… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Baboons (genus Papio) are an intriguing study system to investigate complex evolutionary
processes and the evolution of social systems. An increasing number of studies over the last …

Phylogeography and evolutionary lineage diversity in the small-eared greater galago, Otolemur garnettii (Primates: Galagidae)

A Penna, R Dillon, SK Bearder… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Assessing the true lineage diversity in elusive nocturnal organisms is particularly
challenging due to their subtle phenotypic variation in diagnostic traits. The cryptic small …

[HTML][HTML] Mitogenome recovered from a 19 th Century holotype by shotgun sequencing supplies a generic name for an orphaned clade of African weakly electric fishes …

JP Sullivan, CD Hopkins, S Pirro, R Peterson… - ZooKeys, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Heteromormyrus Steindachner, 1866, a genus of Mormyridae (Teleostei:
Osteoglossomorpha), has been monotypic since the description of …

[PDF][PDF] IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group: Report 2018–2021

RA Mittermeier, AB Rylands… - Report to the …, 2022 - internationalprimatologicalsociety …
Mission: Maintain the full diversity of the order Primates, ensuring the survival of threatened
taxa, and protecting primates in areas of high primate diversity and abundance. Role …

[PDF][PDF] A Comprehensive Overview of Baboon Phylogenetic History. Genes 2023, 14, 614

GH Kopp, R Sithaldeen, F Trede, F Grathwol, C Roos… - 2023 - kops.uni-konstanz.de
Baboons (genus Papio) are an intriguing study system to investigate complex evolutionary
processes and the evolution of social systems. An increasing number of studies over the last …

[HTML][HTML] Importance of genetic data from type specimens: The questionable type locality of southern white-cheeked gibbon, Nomascus siki (Delacour, 1951)

C Roos, RP Miguez, D Zinner, T Nadler - Zoological Research, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many historical descriptions of new species have included vague or inaccurate information
about the type locality. This can lead to confusion in the study of the species and their …

[HTML][HTML] New primates described from 1 January 1990 to 1 May 2023 Re: wild–IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group

RA Mittermeier, AB Rylands - primate-sg.org
One hundred and twenty-four primates—species and subspecies—have been described
since 1990: 54 from Madagascar, 15 from Africa, 25 from Asia, and 34 from the Neotropics …