Plasmodium knowlesi is a malaria parasite that is found in nature in long-tailed and pig-
tailed macaques. Naturally acquired human infections were thought to be extremely rare …

The macaque radiation is as old as the hominin radiation, approximately 7 million years.
After Homo, Macaca has the widest geographical range among primates, and both of these …

Comparative genomic analyses of primates offer considerable potential to define and
understand the processes that mold, shape, and transform the human genome. However …

Plasmodium knowlesi, a malaria parasite originally thought to be restricted to macaques in
Southeast Asia, has recently been recognized as a significant cause of human malaria …

Several questions on public health impact have arisen from the discovery of a large focus of
the simian malaria parasite, Plasmodium knowlesi, in the human population. P. knowlesi …

Aim We describe the distributions of mammal species between the Indochinese and
Sundaic subregions and examine the traditional view that the two faunas show a transition …

Hybridization between two closely related species is a natural evolutionary process that
results in an admixture of previously isolated gene pools. The exchange of genes between …

Fossil evidence indicates that numerous catarrhine clades of African origin expanded or
shifted their ranges into Eurasia, among them macaques Macaca Lacépède, 1799 …

Background Gibbons or small apes inhabit tropical and subtropical rain forests in Southeast
Asia and adjacent regions, and are, next to great apes, our closest living relatives. With up to …

Human malaria parasite species were originally acquired from other primate hosts and
subsequently became endemic, then spread throughout large parts of the world. A major …