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Genetic and Morphological Analyses Confirm the Presence of Cebuella niveiventris (Platyrrhini, Callitrichidae) in Bolivia

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the Chicago Board of Trade/Chicago Zoological Society Endangered Species Fund and the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, Northern Illinois University for their financial support of this research. They also thank our field assistants Edilio Nacimento Becerra and Pedro Cuadiay, who helped to locate the study group and collect fecal samples, and also Cheyenne Graham and Ari Coester, who helped with laboratory work to generate sequence data. Thanks to the Estación Biológica Tahuamanu and the Colección Boliviana de Fauna, La Paz, Bolivia, for help with the logistics of conducting this field research and to the Bolivian Ministry of Environment and Water for granting us permission to conduct this study. Finally, thanks to two anonymous reviewers and the editor for their constructive comments that improved this manuscript. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, 1425 W. Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL, 60115-2828, USA

    Leila M. Porter

  2. School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

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  3. Instituto de Investigaciones de La Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Perú

    Pedro Pérez-Peña

  4. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Liliana Cortés-Ortiz

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LMP originally formulated the idea; LMP, SDT, PPP, LCO developed methodology; LP conducted fieldwork; LCO generated sequencing data and molecular analyses; LMP and LCO wrote the manuscript.

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Porter, L.M., de la Torre, S., Pérez-Peña, P. et al. Genetic and Morphological Analyses Confirm the Presence of Cebuella niveiventris (Platyrrhini, Callitrichidae) in Bolivia. Int J Primatol 44, 852–855 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-023-00372-9

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