Objectives Hair (ie, pelage/fur) is a salient feature of primate (including human) diversity and
evolution—serving functions tied to thermoregulation, protection, camouflage, and signaling …

The most comprehensive phylogenomic reconstruction to date was generated on all
nominal taxa within the lemur genus Propithecus. Over 200 wild-caught individuals were …

Signals are important for species recognition. In this study, I examined the acoustic structure
of loud calls (“Tchi-faks”) in two populations of closely related lemur species in Madagascar …

The crowned sifaka (Propithecus coronatus) and Decken's sifaka (Propithecus deckenii) are
Endangered lemurs endemic to west and central Madagascar. Both have suffered habitat …

Pigmentation is one of the most striking examples of diversity in the natural world.
Specifically, primate pelage (hair/fur) pigmentation provides a substrate for selection, and is …

During an anti-snare walk, a team from the Wildlife Trust of India and Forest Department
encountered a melanistic Rhesus Macaque Macaca mulatta from the First Addition to Manas …

What forces generate and maintain phenotypic diversity? This remains a central question in
evolutionary biology and marks a main tenet of human biology. However, the topic can be …

Considered a subspecies of Propithecus verreauxi by Groves (1993) and of P. deckenii by
Groves (2001). Thalmann et al.(2002) argued that it deserved species status, recently …

Madagascar is home to over 100 endemic lemur taxa (Schwitzer et al. 2013), one of which is
the crowned sifaka Propithecus coronatus. As with the vast majority of lemurs (a staggering …