Manuel Ruiz-García

Laboratory of Molecular Population Genetics-Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cra 7A, No. 43-82, Bogotá DC,1102321, Colombia

Publications

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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