Lemurs, small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa, are a mystery of evolution. When the first ones arrived there tens of millions of years ago, ...

HHMI Investigator Mark Krasnow and his colleagues conducted extensive phenotyping of hundreds of mouse lemurs, screening for anatomical and medical differences that could help locate the origins of ...

Mouse lemurs (Microcebus spp.) are an emerging primate model organism, but their genetics, cellular and molecular biology remain largely unexplored. In an accompanying paper 1, we performed ...

A long-term ecological study reveals that protected forest fragments in southeastern Madagascar (Mandena) significantly improve the survival of endangered mouse lemurs, while translocation strategies ...