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. 2017 Jun 6;206(2):651–664. doi: 10.1534/genetics.116.199448

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Candidates for a genetic model organism that could better mimic primate biology than mouse. Animals shown are small mammals (<200 g) that diverged more recently from the primate lineage than mouse. (A) Northern tree shrew T. belangeri (∼150 g), a mammal found in southeast Asia. (B) Bush baby G. demidovii (∼60 g), a prosimian (strepsirrhine) primate found in west and central Africa. (C) Spectral tarsier T. spectrum (∼120 g), a prosimian primate (recently grouped with haplorrhines) found in Southeast Asia. (D) Pygmy marmoset C. pygmaea (∼120 g), the world’s smallest monkey (haplorrhine), found in the Amazon basin of South America. Photo credits: (A) http://www.philadelphiazoo.org, (B) http://www.arkive.org, (C) http://www.ecologyasia.com, and (D) http://www.justviral.eu.