Penanda Genetik Tarsius (Tarsius Spp.) Dengan Menggunakan Gen Cytochrome Oxidase I (COI) DNA Mitokondria (MtDNA) Melalui Metode Sekuensing [PDF]
, 2015 Tarsier (Tarsius spp.) are the smallest primates in the world. Currently there are 10 species, of which 9 species are distributed in Indonesia and 8 species of them are endemic to Sulawesi. Morphologically the Sulawesi spesies are almost similar.
Kuswandi, P. C. (Paramita) +2 more
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The Biological Overview Effect: Our Place in Nature [PDF]
, 2019 While gazing at the Earth from orbit, some astronauts have described a cognitive shift known as the overview effect. Here we describe an analogous biological overview effect produced by looking at the tiny twig of humanity on the tree of life.
Chopra, Aditya, Lineweaver, Charles
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An interdisciplinary approach to the evolution of grasping and manipulation [PDF]
, 2019 This paper is an introduction to a special issue of the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2019, volume 127: issue 3) focused on an interdisciplinary approach to the evolution of grasping and manipulation in tetrapods. Grasping is associated with
Bardo, Ameline, Pouydebat, Emmanuelle
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Skull of the Eocene primate Omomys carteri from western North America [PDF]
, 2010 The description of a skull of the omomyid primate Omomys carteri from the middle Eocene Bridger Formation of southwestern Wyoming provides important new information relevant to our understanding of Eocene primate systematics and evolution.
Burger, Benjamin J.
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Preliminary Assessment on Primate Diversity and Potential of PrimaTourism Among Local People and Orang Asli Jakun (Aborigines: Proto-Malay) in Tasik Chini Biosphere Reserve, Pahang, Malaysia [PDF]
, 2023 PrimaTourism is a well-known aspect of nature tourism that provides valuable benefits for the primate species conservation. Malaysia, with its rich diversity of more than 25 primate species inhabited in the country, holds significant potential for ...
Abdul-Latiff, Muhammad Abu Bakar +8 more
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Selective Gene Loss of Visual and Olfactory Guanylyl Cyclase Genes Following the Two Rounds of Vertebrate-Specific Whole-Genome Duplications [PDF]
, 2020 Photoreceptors convey visual information and come in two flavors; dim-light and bright-light dedicated rod and cones. Both cell types feature highly specialized phototransduction cascades that convert photonic energy into intracellular signals.
Gesemann, Matthias +1 more
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Blue Eyes on Red Lists: Conservation and the Future of the Blue-eyed Black Lemur [PDF]
, 2016 The family Lemuridae represents a large and important group within the order Primate. Today, lemurs—endemic to Madagascar—are the most threatened mammal group on Earth. Almost every one of the 100-plus recognized species suffers from habitat destruction
Meier, Katherine
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Comparative Morphology of Primate Distal Phalanges: Implications for Early Primate Evolution and the Origins of the Primate Nail [PDF]
, 2015 Human manual dexterity is strongly enhanced by the presence of flattened nails associated with well-developed apical pads. However, the presence of nails is not unique to humans; it is one of the few traits that unite all living primates.
Maiolino, Stephanie A.
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The successive emergence of ERVL-MaLRs in primates. [PDF]
Virus Evol, 2023 Zuo Z.
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