The modern pitheciids (titis, sakis, and uakaris) of northern South America represent one of
the earliest radiations of platyrrhines and demonstrate morphological adaptations and …

There have been multiple published phylogenetic analyses of platyrrhine primates (New
World monkeys) using both morphological and molecular data, but relatively few that have …

Owl monkeys, genus Aotus, are distributed from Panama to the northeast of Argentina and
from the highlands of the Andes to the Atlantic coast. They are relatively small arboreal …

Abstract New World Monkeys (NWM)(platyrrhines) are one of the most diverse groups of
primates, occupying today a wide range of ecosystems in the American tropics and …

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 …

Despite close to three decades of genetic studies that have tried to resolve the precise
phylogenetic position of owl monkeys (genus Aotus) within the platyrrhine radiation, some …

We are far from developing an informed synthesis regarding the evolution of New World
Monkeys–probably decades away. For even with the important strides made over the past …

The estimation of phylogenetic relationships and divergence times among a group of
organisms is a fundamental first step toward understanding its biological diversification. The …

The insular Caribbean until recently contained a diverse mammal fauna including four
endemic platyrrhine primate species, all of which died out during the Holocene. Previous …

Phylogeny reconstruction is an estimation of genealogical history, not an exact rendering of
it, and no method of phylogeny reconstruction is infallible. The cladistic relationships of the …