Journal of Phylogenetics & Evolutionary Biology

Department of Math, Science and Technology, University of Minnesota Crookston, 2900 University Ave., Crookston, MN 56716, USA

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• Research Article   
  How Many Taxa or Groups are within Nasua nasua and Nasuella olivacea (Procyonidae, Carnivora)? The Mitochondrial Reconstruction of the Complex Evolutionary History of the Coatis throughout the Neotropics and Some Insights into the Systematics of the Genus Bassarycion
  Author(s): Manuel Ruiz-García*, María Fernanda Jaramillo and Joseph Mark Shostell
  
  The coatis are social carnivores of the family Procyonidae that inhabit the Neotropics (from Arizona, U.S., to northern Argentina and Uruguay). Traditionally, three species of coatis are placed in two different genera: Nasua (Nasua nasua distributed in South America; Nasua narica, distributed in Central America) and Nasuella (Nasuella olivacea, distributed in the Andean Cordilleras of Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador). Recently, a supposed new species of Nasuella has been reported (N. meridensis) in the Venezuelan Andean Cordillera. However, the systematics and the evolutionary history of the coatis are extremely confusing. Herein, we present an phylogenetic analysis of 345 coati specimens sampled from southern Mexico to Uruguay sequenced at eight mitochondrial genes (ND5, ND4,Cytb, D-loop, COI, COII, ATP6, and 12s rRNA). We detected 19 main haplogroups (10 haplogrou.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2329-9002.2022.10.206

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