A Mitogenomic Phylogeny of Living Primates

Finstermeier, Knut; Zinner, Dietmar; Brameier, Markus; Meyer, Matthias; Kreuz, Eva; Hofreiter, Michael; Roos, Christian

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“…Haplorrhine primate evolution followed a path that gave rise to four clades in succession: the Platyrrhini (New World monkeys) and the Catarrhini, which include the Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), the Hylobatidae (lesser apes and gibbons) and the Hominidae (great apes) (Finstermeier et al, 2013;Perelman et al, 2011). We use phylogenetically informed regression analysis to test how the total internal carotid blood flow, which is the sum of flows in both arteries, increases with brain volume, while accounting for the statistical dependence of related species due to their common ancestral history.…”

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Scaling of cerebral blood perfusion in primates and marsupials

Seymour

Angove

Snelling

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Biology

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The evolution of primates involved increasing body size, brain size and presumably cognitive ability. Cognition is related to neural activity, metabolic rate and rate of blood flow to the cerebral cortex. These parameters are difficult to quantify in living animals. This study shows that it is possible to determine the rate of cortical brain perfusion from the size of the internal carotid artery foramina in skulls of certain mammals, including haplorrhine primates and diprotodont marsupials. We quantify combined blood flow rate in both internal carotid arteries as a proxy of brain metabolism in 34 species of haplorrhine primates (0.116-145 kg body mass) and compare it to the same analysis for 19 species of diprotodont marsupials (0.014-46 kg). Brain volume is related to body mass by essentially the same exponent of 0.70 in both groups. Flow rate increases with haplorrhine brain volume to the 0.95 power, which is significantly higher than the exponent (0.75) expected for most organs according to 'Kleiber's Law'. By comparison, the exponent is 0.73 in marsupials. Thus, the brain perfusion rate increases with body size and brain size much faster in primates than in marsupials. The trajectory of cerebral perfusion in primates is set by the phylogenetically older groups (New and Old World monkeys, lesser apes) and the phylogenetically younger groups (great apes, including humans) fall near the line, with the highest perfusion. This may be associated with disproportionate increases in cortical surface area and mental capacity in the highly social, larger primates.

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Scaling of cerebral blood perfusion in primates and marsupials

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Angove

Snelling

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Biology

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“…The mitochondrial phylogeny of the three gibbon genera, Nomascus, Symphalangus, and Hylobates, based on the 9 concatenated protein coding genes was identical to that based on the whole mitochondrial genome (Hayashi et al, 1995;Müller et al, 2003;Brandon-Jones et al, 2004;Takacs et al, 2005;Monda et al, 2007;Whittaker et al, 2007;Chan et al, 2010;Matsudaira and Ishida, 2010;Kim et al, 2011;Chan et al, 2012;Meyer et al, 2012;Finstermeier et al, 2013;Wall et al, 2013). However, previous phylogenetic studies using the whole mitochondrial genome, Matsudaira and Ishida (2010) and Finstermeier et al (2013) both included only one Nomascus species. The former is Nomascus sp.…”

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“…Recent phylogenetic studies reveal that mitochondrial genomes can provide sufficient resolution for reconstructing a robust phylogeny (Gómez-Carballa et al, 2015;Muisuk et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2015). The use of gibbons' whole mitochondrial genome sequences may help to resolve their undetermined phylogenetic relationships.…”

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A Phylogeny Based on the Concatenated 9 Protein-coding Gene Sequences of Mt Genomes among Three Gibbon Genera

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The objective of this study was to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships of gibbons (3 genera, 11 species) deduced from complete sequenced mitochondrial genome sequences. According to conserved (C) / variable (V) sites ratio test, 9 selected protein coding genes were combined into a sequence with 9356 bases long including gaps. A resolved phylogenetic tree was obtained for the mitochondrial genome in the maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony analyses. In accordance with all previous morphological and molecular evidence, our results clearly supported monophyly of family Hylobatidae with predominantly strongly supported and each of the three genera with high support based on these coding genes. Among three genera, first Nomascus, next Symphalangus and at last Hylobates diverged, which identical to other previous research based on the whole mitochondrial genome. Our phylogenetic relationships of Nomascus group accord with Chan et al. (2010), only support values of a node of N. gabriellae (90%) were slight lower than Chan's result (97%). Among genus Hylobates, in our result, 6 species are involved and H. pileatus, H. lar, H. klossii, H. agilis, H. moloch and H. muelleri diverged sequentially.

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“…Estimated divergence ages within primates (StrepsirrhiniHaplorhini and Catarrhini-Platyrrhini) conflict strongly with the ages for these nodes proposed by Heads (2010). For each set, the first six bars are age estimates based on recent molecular studies (in order Perelman et al 2011;Wilkinson et al 2011;Jameson et al 2011;Springer et al 2012;Finstermeier et al 2013;Pozzi et al 2014), with the unhatched part of each bar indicating the posterior mean estimate and 95% credible interval. 'F' indicates the age of the earliest known fossil of the group in question (i.e.…”

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Jurassic primates, immobile ducks and other oddities: a reply to Heads’ review of The Monkey’s Voyage

Queiroz

2016

Aust. Systematic Bot.

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Abstract. In The Monkey's Voyage, I focused on the issue of disjunct distributions, and, in particular, on the burgeoning support from molecular-dating studies for long-distance dispersal over vicariance as the most reasonable explanation for many (but by no means all) distributions broken up by oceans. Michael Heads' assessment of the book is founded on his long-standing belief, following Croizat, that long-distance dispersal is an insignificant process and, therefore, that disjunctions are virtually always attributable to vicariance. In holding to these notions, Heads offered a series of unsound arguments. In particular, to preserve an 'all-vicariance' perspective, he presented a distorted view of the nature of long-distance dispersal, misrepresented current applications of fossil calibrations in molecular-dating studies, ignored methodological biases in such studies that often favour vicariance hypotheses, repeatedly invoked irrelevant geological reconstructions, and, most strikingly, showed a cavalier approach to evolutionary timelines by pushing the origins of many groups back to unreasonably ancient ages. The result was a succession of implausible histories for particular taxa and areas, including the notions that the Hawaiian biota is almost entirely derived from ancient (often Mesozoic) central Pacific metapopulations, that the disjunctions of extremely mobile organisms such as ducks rarely, if ever, result from long-distance dispersal, and that primates were widespread 120 million years before their first appearance in the fossil record. In contrast to Heads' perspective, a central message of The Monkey's Voyage is that explanations for disjunct distributions should be evaluated on the basis of diverse kinds of evidence, without strong a priori assumptions about the relative likelihoods of long-distance dispersal and vicariance.

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A Mitogenomic Phylogeny of Living Primates

Cited by 227 publications

References 88 publications

Scaling of cerebral blood perfusion in primates and marsupials

Scaling of cerebral blood perfusion in primates and marsupials

A Phylogeny Based on the Concatenated 9 Protein-coding Gene Sequences of Mt Genomes among Three Gibbon Genera

Jurassic primates, immobile ducks and other oddities: a reply to Heads’ review of The Monkey’s Voyage

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