Trudy R. Turner

TL;DR: In this paper, body weight and ten body segment measurements were collected from 367 wild-trapped vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) in central and southern Kenya.

TL;DR: The phylogeny and population history of the vervet monkey is described and the use of both captive and wild vervet monkeys in biomedical research is summarized.

TL;DR: In the C. a.

TL;DR: It is shown that the human microbiome reacts differently to a high-protein, high-fat Western diet than that of a model primate, the African green monkey, or vervet (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus), and predictive metagenomics demonstrates an increased relative abundance of genes associated with carbohydrate metabolism in the microbiome of only humans consuming a Western diet.

TL;DR: High diversity within and between taxa and clear evidence that taxonomic divergence was reticulate rather than following a simple branching pattern are found and a scan for diversifying selection across taxa identifies strong and highly polygenic selection signals affecting viral processes.