Phylogeny, molecular population genetics, evolutionary biology, and conservation of the neotropical primates / editors, Manuel Ruiz-Garcia and Joseph Mark Shostell (Professor Titular-Catedr�atico, Coordinador Unidad de Gen�etica, Departamento de Biolog�ia, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogot�a-Colombia, and others).

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PHYLOGENY, MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETICS, EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF THENEOTROPICAL PRIMATES; PHYLOGENY, MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETICS, EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF THE NEOTROPICAL PRIMATES; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO NEOTROPICAL PRIMATES; ABSTRACT; GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO NEOTROPICAL PRIMATES; STATUS OF NEOTROPICAL PRIMATES; ORGANIZATION OF BOOK; INTRODUCTION OF NEOTROPICAL PRIMATE FAMILIES; Callitrichidae; Cebidae; Atelidae; Ateles; Brachyteles; Alouatta; Lagothrix; Pitheciidae

CacajaoCallicebus; Chiropotes; Pithecia; Aotidae; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; PHYLOGENY, MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETICS AND PALEOPRIMATOLOGY; Chapter 2: THE PALEOBIOLOGY OF THE RECENTLY-EXTINCT PLATYRRHINES OF BRAZIL AND THE CARIBBEAN; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; The "Giant" Subfossils of Brazil; The Endemic Caribbean Primates; LOCOMOTOR AND POSTCRANIAL ADAPTATIONS; The Brazilian Primates; The Caribbean Primates; CRANIODENTAL MORPHOLOGY AND DIET; The Brazilian Primates; The Caribbean Primates; BODY SIZE; EXTINCTION; The Caribbean; Brazil; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES

Chapter 3: GENETIC HETEROGENEITY AND EVOLUTIONARY DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE ENDEMIC COLOMBIAN SAGUINUS LEUCOPUS (PRIMATES) BY MEANS OF DNA MICROSATELLITES AND COALESCENCE METHODSABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; MATERIAL AND METHODS; Molecular Analyses; Population Genetics Analyses; RESULTS; Microsatellite Mutation Models; Effective Number Sizes; Gene Drift and Gene Flow in Populations of S. leucopus; Population Expansions in S. leucopus; When Did the Antioquia and Tolima S. leucopus Populations Diverge?; DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES

Chapter 4: DIVERSITY OF CEBUS SPECIES FROM THE SOUTHERN DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENUSABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; THE SOUTHERNMOST CEBUS SPECIES; PHENOTYPIC AND GENETIC VARIABILITY; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; AN INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS OF CEBUS CAY AND C. NIGRITUS DIVERSITY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 5: GENETIC STRUCTURE, SPATIAL PATTERNS AND HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF WHITE-THROATED CAPUCHIN (CEBUS CAPUCINUS, CEBIDAE, PRIMATES) POPULATIONS OF COLOMBIA AND CENTRAL AMERICA BY MEANS OF DNA MICROSATELLITES; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; MATERIAL AND METHODS; Molecular Procedures

Population Genetics Molecular AnalysesGenetic Diversity and Natural Selection; Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, Genetic Heterogeneity and Gene Flow; Assignation and Genetic Structure Tests; Possible Historical Demographic Changes; Spatial Genetic Analyses; RESULTS; Gene Diversity and Natural Selection; Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, Genetic Heterogeneity and Gene Flow; Genetic Assignment and Genetic Structure; Historical Demographic Changes; Spatial Genetic Structure; DISCUSSION; Population Genetics of C. Capucinus; Molecular Systematics within C. Capucinus; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES

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