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Disotell et al. 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Though these works agree on the monophyly of each of the Atelidae, Pitheciidae, and Cebidae (Cebinae + Aotinae + Callitrichinae), they disagree on the relative relationships among the families. |
| | Epsilon-globin and beta-2-microglobulin (both autosomal) infer a sister-relationship between the Atelidae and Pitheciidae; IRBP (autosomal) supports a clade of Pitheciidae and Cebidae; G6PD (X-chromosomal) groups the Atelidae with the Cebidae. |
| | Such disagreement among molecular datasets is consistent with the hypothesis that an evolutionarily short internode separates the two divergence events giving rise to the progenitors of the platyrrhine families; the conflicting nuclear topologies would then be the result of differential lineage sorting at various genetic loci. |
| www.nyu.edu /projects/difiore/publications/disotelletal2003.html (206 words) |
