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Phylogeography of Kloss’s Gibbon (Hylobates Klossii) Populations and Implications for Conservation Planning in the Mentawai Islands

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation (BCS-0335949), grants from the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, Primate Conservation, Inc., and Conservation International, and by the City University of New York Graduate Center, and the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP). I am grateful to the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and the government of the Republic of Indonesia for granting permission to conduct research in Indonesia, as well as my Indonesian sponsors Noviar Andayani and Amsir Bakar. Thanks also to Juan Carlos Morales, Don Melnick, Todd Disotell, John Oates, Rob DeSalle, and Roberto Delgado for guidance, comments, and access to laboratory facilities. Finally, thank you to Susan Lappan for thoughtful comments throughout this research project.

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    Whittaker, D.J. (2009). Phylogeography of Kloss’s Gibbon (Hylobates Klossii) Populations and Implications for Conservation Planning in the Mentawai Islands. In: Whittaker, D., Lappan, S. (eds) The Gibbons. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88604-6_5

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