Definitions
Simians: higher primates including Old and New World monkeys and great apes.
Prosimians: an informal grouping of primates consisting of those belonging to the primate suborder Strepsirrhini and the tarsiers of the suborder Haplorhini.
Hominids: any of the modern or extinct bipedal primates of the family Hominidae, including all species of the genera Homo and Australopithecus.
Introduction
Microbial organisms account for a substantial portion of Earth biomass and live in intimate association with their vertebrate and invertebrate hosts. Humans and nonhuman primates (NHPs), like other mammals, live in this microbe-dominated world; therefore, microbial communities have direct impact on the health and disease and ultimately evolution of primates and other living organisms (Yeoman et al. 2011).
Molecular phylogeny combined with the fossil records is a useful tool in delineating primate evolution. With the availability of new genomic sequences,...
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Prosimian Online Sources
NCBI prosimian taxonomy. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=376911
New world encyclopedia – prosimian. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Prosimian
Wikipedia prosimian entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosimian
Photos of Strepsirrhini (Prosimians)
Encyclopedia of life. http://eol.org/pages/8824134/media
Lemurs photos, private web site. http://www.svocelot.com/Flora_&_Fauna/Madagascar/MadLemurs.htm
Tarsiers. http://eol.org/pages/1646/media
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Yildirim, S. (2014). Terrestrial Vertebrate Animal Metagenomics: Non-domesticated Primates, Prosimians. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_108-7
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