TY - JOUR
T1 - St. Kitts green monkeys originate from West Africa
T2 - Genetic evidence from feces
AU - Van Der Kuyl, Antoinette C.
AU - Dekker, John T.
AU - Goudsmit, Jaap
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - Sequencing of a fragment of mitochondrial DNA extracted from droppings of a green monkey inhabiting the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, and comparing the obtained sequence with sequences determined earlier for the four recognized subspecies of African green monkeys, showed that this monkey can be classified as Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus, and thus originates from West Africa. As the ancestors of the monkeys reached the island by ships involved in the slave trade in the 17th to 18th centuries, determination of the monkey subspecies suggests that the animals were originally acquired nearby the West African ports from which the ships sailed, and were not brought from the central parts of Africa together with the slaves.
AB - Sequencing of a fragment of mitochondrial DNA extracted from droppings of a green monkey inhabiting the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, and comparing the obtained sequence with sequences determined earlier for the four recognized subspecies of African green monkeys, showed that this monkey can be classified as Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus, and thus originates from West Africa. As the ancestors of the monkeys reached the island by ships involved in the slave trade in the 17th to 18th centuries, determination of the monkey subspecies suggests that the animals were originally acquired nearby the West African ports from which the ships sailed, and were not brought from the central parts of Africa together with the slaves.
KW - African green monkeys
KW - DNA sequencing
KW - St. Kitts
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0030481813&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1098-2345(1996)40:4<361::AID-AJP5>3.0.CO;2-W
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1098-2345(1996)40:4<361::AID-AJP5>3.0.CO;2-W
M3 - Article
SN - 0275-2565
VL - 40
SP - 361
EP - 364
JO - American Journal of Primatology
JF - American Journal of Primatology
IS - 4
ER -