With the aim to clarify the phylogenetic relationships within prosimians (Strepsirrhini), colobines (Colobinae) and gibbons (Hylobatidae), sequence fragments of the mitochondrial genome were generated for all three primate groups and phylogenetically analysed. Exemplarily for prosimians, SINE transpositions used as molecular cladistic markers were applied additionally. Based on the reconstructed phylogeny, dispersal patterns of the groups and overlaps between them were be detected. Based on the monophyly of the two Malagasy prosimian infraorders and of the two Asian genera, only a single colonisation of Madagascar and Asia from Africa by prosimians is likely. Within the colobines, the representatives of each of the continents Africa and Asia form monophyletic clades and hence, only a single colonisation of Asia is possible. In Asia, several biogeographic correlations among the three groups were detected.
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With the aim to clarify the phylogenetic relationships within prosimians (Strepsirrhini), colobines (Colobinae) and gibbons (Hylobatidae), sequence fragments of the mitochondrial genome were generated for all three primate groups and phylogenetically analysed. Exemplarily for prosimians, SINE transpositions used as molecular cladistic markers were applied additionally. Based on the reconstructed phylogeny, dispersal patterns of the groups and overlaps between them were be detected. Based on the...
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