"Hylobates" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of the family HYLOBATIDAE consisting of six species. The members of this genus inhabit rain forests in southeast Asia. They are arboreal and differ from other anthropoids in the great length of their arms and very slender bodies and limbs. Their major means of locomotion is by swinging from branch to branch by their arms. Hylobates means dweller in the trees. Some authors refer to Symphalangus and Nomascus as Hylobates. The six genera include: H. concolor (crested or black gibbon), H. hoolock (Hoolock gibbon), H. klossii (Kloss's gibbon; dwarf siamang), H. lar (common gibbon), H. pileatus (pileated gibbon), and H. syndactylus (siamang). H. lar is also known as H. agilis (lar gibbon), H. moloch (agile gibbon), and H. muelleri (silvery gibbon).
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D006922
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B01.050.150.900.649.313.988.400.112.420.390
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| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hylobates" by people in Profiles.
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Light LEO, Savini T, Sparks CS, Bartlett TQ. White-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) alter ranging patterns in response to habitat type. Primates. 2021 Jan; 62(1):77-90.
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Israfil H, Zehr SM, Mootnick AR, Ruvolo M, Steiper ME. Unresolved molecular phylogenies of gibbons and siamangs (Family: Hylobatidae) based on mitochondrial, Y-linked, and X-linked loci indicate a rapid Miocene radiation or sudden vicariance event. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2011 Mar; 58(3):447-55.
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Sharma Y, Xu T, Graf WM, Fobbs A, Sherwood CC, Hof PR, Allman JM, Manaye KF. Comparative anatomy of the locus coeruleus in humans and nonhuman primates. J Comp Neurol. 2010 Apr 01; 518(7):963-71.