Hylobatidae

Other Names for Hylobatidae

• Gibbons

References

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Chatterjee, H. J. 2006. Phylogeny and biogeography of gibbons: A dispersal-vicariance analysis. International Journal of Primatology 27(3):699-712.

Garza, J. C., and Woodruff, D. S. 1992. A phylogenetic study of the gibbons (Hylobates) using DNA obtained noninvasively from hair. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 1: 202–210.

Geissmann, T. 2002. Taxonomy and evolution of gibbons. In Soligo, C., Anzenberger, G., and Martin, R. D. (eds.), Anthropology and Primatology into the Third Millennium: The Centenary Congress of the Zürich Anthropological Institute (Evolutionary Anthropology Vol. 11, Suppl. 1). New York: Wiley-Liss, New York, pp. 28–31.

Groves, C. P. 1972. Systematics and phylogeny of gibbons. In Rumbaugh, D. M. (ed.), Gibbon and Siamang. Vol. 1, Karger, Basel, pp. 1–89.

Haimoff, E. H., Gittins, S. P., Whitten, A. J., and Chivers, D. J. 1984. A phylogeny and classification of gibbons based on morphology and ethology. In Preuschoft, H., Chivers, D. J., Brockelman, W. Y., and Creel, N. (eds.), The Lesser Apes. Evolutionary and Behavioural Biology. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 614–632.

Hall, L. M., Jones, D., and Wood, B. 1998. Evolution of the gibbon subgenera inferred from cytochrome b DNA sequence data. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 10(3): 281–286.

Hayashi, S., Hayasaka, K., Takenaka, O., and Horai, S. 1995. Molecular phylogeny of gibbons inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences: Preliminary report. J. Mol. Evol. 41: 359–365.

Purvis, A. 1995. A composite estimate of primate phylogeny. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (Series B), 348:405-421.

Tyler, D. E. 1993. The evolutionary history of the gibbon. In Jablonski, N. (ed.), Evolving Landscapes and Evolving Biotas of East Asia Since the Mid-Tertiary. Centre for Asian Studies, Hong Kong University, pp. 228–240.

Zehr, S., Ruvolo, M., Heider, J., and Mootnick, A. 1996. Gibbon phylogeny inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. (Suppl) 22: 251.

Information on the Internet

• International Center for Gibbon Studies
• Hylobatidae. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology Animal Diversity Web.