Capuchin monkey behavior has been the focus of increasing numbers of captive and field
studies in recent years, clarifying behavioral and ecological differences between the two …

The evolutionary history of chromosomes can be tracked by the comparative hybridization of
large panels of bacterial artificial chromosome clones. This approach has disclosed an …

The origins and the divergence times of the most basal lineages within primates have been
difficult to resolve mainly due to the incomplete sampling of early fossil taxa. The main …

Aim Capuchin monkey species are widely distributed across Central and South America.
Morphological studies consistently divide the clade into robust and gracile forms, which …

The role of Amazonian rivers as drivers of speciation through vicariance remains
controversial. Here we explore the riverine hypothesis by comparing spatial and temporal …

The squirrel monkey, Saimiri, is a pan-Amazonian Pleistocene radiation. We use statistical
phylogeographic methods to create a mitochondrial DNA-based timetree for 118 squirrel …

Baboons (genus Papio) are an interesting phylogeographical primate model for the
evolution of savanna species during the Pleistocene. Earlier studies, based on partial …

This paper provides an overview of the taxonomy of New World primates from proposals of
the 1980's based on morphology to the great number of studies based on molecular data …

The current taxonomy of the N ew W orld primates (P latyrrhini) indicates c. 152 species (ie
204 species and subspecies) in 20 genera and four or five families. For various reasons, the …

Mitochondrial DNA remains a cornerstone for molecular ecology, especially for study
species from which high‐quality tissue samples cannot be easily obtained. Methods using …