Phylogenetic relationships among two species of golden monkey and three species of leaf monkey inferred from rDNA variation.
Restriction maps of rDNA repeats of five species of Colobinae and three outgroup taxa, Hylobates leucogenys, Macaca mulatta, and Macaca irus, were constructed using 15 restriction endonucleases and cloned 18S and 28S rRNA gene probes. The site variation between Rhinopithecus roxellana and Rhinopithecus bieti is comparable to that between Presbytis françoisi and Preshytis phayrei, implying that R. bieti is a valid species rather than a subspecies of R. roxellana. Phylogenetic analysis on the 47 informative sites supports the case for Rhinopithecus being an independent genus and closely related to Presbytis. Furthermore, branch lengths of the tree seem to support the hypothesis that the leaf monkeys share some ancestral traits as well as some automorphic characters.
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Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China.
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D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002520:Cercopithecidae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D016673:Colobinae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006922:Hylobates / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D008214:Lymphocytes; D008251:Macaca / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D015183:Restriction Mapping
D004275:DNA, Ribosomal