Loss of cell surface αGal during catarrhine evolution: Possible implications for the evolution of resistance to viral infections and for Oligocene lineage divergence
The divergence of the two superfamilies belonging to the Infraorder Catarrhini – Cercopithecoidea (Old World monkeys) and Hominoidea (apes, including humans) – is generally assumed to have occurred during the Oligocene, between 38 and 20 million years ago. Genetic studies indicate that this time per...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2014
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3615444 |