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Citation title: "Remarkable ancient divergences amongst neglected lorisiform primates".

Study name: "Remarkable ancient divergences amongst neglected lorisiform primates".

This study is part of submission 17669 (Status: Published).

Citation

Pozzi L., Nekaris A.K., Perkin A., Bearder S.K., Pimley E.R., Schulze H., Streicher U., Nadler T., Kitchener A., Zischler H., Zinner D., & Roos C. 2015. Remarkable ancient divergences amongst neglected lorisiform primates. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, .

Authors

• Pozzi L. (submitter)
• Nekaris A.K.
• Perkin A.
• Bearder S.K.
• Pimley E.R.
• Schulze H.
• Streicher U.
• Nadler T.
• Kitchener A.
• Zischler H.
• Zinner D.
• Roos C.

Abstract

Lorisiform primates (Primates: Strepsirrhini: Lorisiformes) represent almost 10% of the living primate species and are widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and South/South-East Asia; however, their taxonomy, evolutionary history, and biogeography are still poorly understood. In this study we report the largest molecular phylogeny in terms of the number of represented taxa. We sequenced the complete mitochondrial cytochrome b gene for 86 lorisiform specimens, including ∼80% of all the species currently recognized. Our results support the monophyly of the Galagidae, but a common ancestry of the Lorisinae and Perodicticinae (family Lorisidae) was not recovered. These three lineages have early origins, with the Galagidae and the Lorisinae diverging in the Oligocene at about 30 Mya and the Perodicticinae emerging in the early Miocene. Our mitochondrial phylogeny agrees with recent studies based on nuclear data, and supports Euoticus as the oldest galagid lineage and the polyphyletic status of Galagoides. Moreover, we have elucidated phylogenetic relationships for several species never included before in a molecular phylogeny. The results obtained in this study suggest that lorisiform diversity remains substantially underestimated and that previously unnoticed cryptic diversity might be present within many lineages, thus urgently requiring a comprehensive taxonomic revision of this primate group.

Keywords

Africa ? Asia ? cryptic species ? cytochrome b ? Galagidae ? Lorisidae ? mitochondrial DNA ? Strepsirrhini

External links

• DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12286
• Other URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12286/abstract

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• Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S17669
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  	 author = {Luca  Pozzi and Anne-Isola K Nekaris and Andrew  Perkin and Simon K Bearder and Elizabeth R Pimley and Helga  Schulze and Ulrike  Streicher and Tilo  Nadler and Andrew  Kitchener and Hans  Zischler and Dietmar  Zinner and Christian  Roos},
  	 title = {Remarkable ancient divergences amongst neglected lorisiform primates},
  	 year = {2015},
  	 keywords = {Africa ? Asia ? cryptic species ? cytochrome b ? Galagidae ? Lorisidae ? mitochondrial DNA ? Strepsirrhini},
  	 doi = {10.1111/zoj.12286},
  	 url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12286/abstract},
  	 pmid = {},
  	 journal = {Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society},
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  	 number = {},
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  	 abstract = {Lorisiform primates (Primates: Strepsirrhini: Lorisiformes) represent almost 10% of the living primate species and are widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and South/South-East Asia; however, their taxonomy, evolutionary history, and biogeography are still poorly understood. In this study we report the largest molecular phylogeny in terms of the number of represented taxa. We sequenced the complete mitochondrial cytochrome b gene for 86 lorisiform specimens, including ∼80% of all the species currently recognized. Our results support the monophyly of the Galagidae, but a common ancestry of the Lorisinae and Perodicticinae (family Lorisidae) was not recovered. These three lineages have early origins, with the Galagidae and the Lorisinae diverging in the Oligocene at about 30 Mya and the Perodicticinae emerging in the early Miocene. Our mitochondrial phylogeny agrees with recent studies based on nuclear data, and supports Euoticus as the oldest galagid lineage and the polyphyletic status of Galagoides. Moreover, we have elucidated phylogenetic relationships for several species never included before in a molecular phylogeny. The results obtained in this study suggest that lorisiform diversity remains substantially underestimated and that previously unnoticed cryptic diversity might be present within many lineages, thus urgently requiring a comprehensive taxonomic revision of this primate group.}
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  AU  - Nekaris,Anne-Isola K
  AU  - Perkin,Andrew 
  AU  - Bearder,Simon K
  AU  - Pimley,Elizabeth R
  AU  - Schulze,Helga 
  AU  - Streicher,Ulrike 
  AU  - Nadler,Tilo 
  AU  - Kitchener,Andrew 
  AU  - Zischler,Hans 
  AU  - Zinner,Dietmar 
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