菲氏叶猴与黑叶猴的下颌骨

本文对15只菲氏叶猴和8只黑叶猴成年下颌骨作了功能形态学研究。在21项所分析的变量中,两种之间有4项达到显著性差异水平,而10项达到非常显著的差异水平。从所分析的结构看来,菲氏时猴下臼齿及门齿的面积大于黑叶猴,而黑叶猴的咬肌附着部分(支高、颌高,支宽及髁头长)大于菲氏叶猴。这表现了黑叶猴比菲氏叶猴具更强的咀嚼能力。因而,可以推测在食物成分中,黑叶猴食坚果的比例要大于菲氏叶猴。     

金丝猴(RHINOPITHECUS)肌肉系统某些特征的比较研究

本文对金丝猴与其他灵长类之间和三种金丝猴之间特征不同的56条肌作了比较研究。结果表明:三种金丝猴的肌肉系统存在一些差异。纠正了Patterson(1942)对一例川金丝猴的一些错误观察记录。在金丝猴属的肌学方面除与猴超科共有的大部分特征外,还具有与类人猿和人相似的特征。在猴类中,金丝猴的肌肉系统更多地与叶猴相似,其中一些特征较叶猴更为进化。从进化观点看,金丝猴的肌学特征似介于叶猴与类人猿之间,故它们比其他猴超科动物更为进化。     

金丝猴颅骨及牙齿的比较形态研究

金丝猴(Rhinopithecus roxellanae M.-E.)自从1870年订名以来,对它的研究多限于分类和个体生态习性的观察描述,至于它的形态解剖方面的论述国内几无报道。国外Hooizer(1950)和Swindler(1976)对其牙齿作了简单扼要的描述,前者并在11例川金丝猴头骨中发现一例左侧上颌骨具有P⁴。这次我们对金丝猴系统的研究过程中,在解剖方面,除了进行各器官系统解剖外,同时还与猕猴、黑叶猴相比较,并对其器官的形态变化和生态生理机能的结合上给以适当注意和解释。     

白头叶猴栖息环境与栖息地选择的研究

通过样方法和焦点动物法分别对白头叶猴栖息环境进行了观察,并对栖息环境的植物多样性进行了统计分析。结果表明,白头叶猴栖息地可分为山脚、山腰、山顶和山弄平地4部分,各部分优势种植物不同,白头叶猴栖息地的Shannon Venner多样性指数为6.152,均匀度为0.8439,白头叶猴对石山山脚、山腰、山顶和山弄平地的利用率分布为66.45 5.65%,21.15±5.49%,12.78±6.8%。在山脚主要是休息和觅食,在山腰主要是移动,在山顶主要是冬季晒太阳。因此,保护白头叶猴的栖息地对保护白头叶猴有特别重要的意义。     

白头叶猴食谱与觅食时间分配的研究

白头叶猴生活在喀斯特石山环境 ,以树叶为食。对其进行跟踪观察表明白头叶猴有食物 42种 ,其中乔木占 42 .8% ,灌木占 2 6.1 % ,藤本占 2 1 .5% ,草本占 9.6% ,食物组成中树叶占63%— 95% ,果实占 5%— 35% ,花占 0— 6%。白头叶猴有两种觅食方式 ,每天猴群有觅食高峰 2次。白头叶猴觅食的持续时间占日活动时间分配的比例在一年中有季节性变化 ,表现为夏天低冬天高 ,分别为 1 0 .0 3% (6月份 )— 2 3.2 1 % (1 2月份 ) ,这与食物的丰盛状况有关。     

Development and evolution of the tetrapod skull–neck boundary

The origin and evolution of the vertebrate skull have been topics of intense study for more than two centuries. Whereas early theories of skull origin, such as the influential vertebral theory, have been largely refuted with respect to the anterior (pre‐otic) region of the skull, the posterior (post‐otic) region is known to be derived from the anteriormost paraxial segments, i.e. the somites. Here we review the morphology and development of the occiput in both living and extinct tetrapods, taking into account revised knowledge of skull development by augmenting historical accounts with recent data. When occipital composition is evaluated relative to its position along the neural axis, and specifically to the hypoglossal nerve complex, much of the apparent interspecific variation in the location of the skull–neck boundary stabilizes in a phylogenetically informative way. Based on this criterion, three distinct conditions are identified in (i) frogs, (ii) salamanders and caecilians, and (iii) amniotes. The position of the posteriormost occipital segment relative to the hypoglossal nerve is key to understanding the evolution of the posterior limit of the skull. By using cranial foramina as osteological proxies of the hypoglossal nerve, a survey of fossil taxa reveals the amniote condition to be present at the base of Tetrapoda. This result challenges traditional theories of cranial evolution, which posit translocation of the occiput to a more posterior location in amniotes relative to lissamphibians (frogs, salamanders, caecilians), and instead supports the largely overlooked hypothesis that the reduced occiput in lissamphibians is secondarily derived. Recent advances in our understanding of the genetic basis of axial patterning and its regulation in amniotes support the hypothesis that the lissamphibian occipital form may have arisen as the product of a homeotic shift in segment fate from an amniote‐like condition.     

三种叶猴脊神经丛的比较研究

本文首次报道3种叶猴脊神经丛的组成,并与其他灵长类作了比较研究。结果表明:颈丛由C_(1-4)组成,多数标本不存在枕小神经和多数标本存在舌下袢;臂丛由C_4—T_2组成,形成典型的三干三索结构,后索形成两个神经袢;腰骶丛由L_(2-7)和S_(1-2)组成,存在屈股神经和耻坐股神经,与猴超科共同特征相一致。     

猕猴肾段动脉与肾段的观察

通过对猕猴肾动脉肾内分支分布的观察,其前干的分支分为上段动脉,上前段动脉、下前段动脉和下段动脉;后干的分支作作上后段动脉和下后段动脉。与此相应,猕猴肾可分为上段,上前段、下前段、下段、上后段和下后段６个肾段。     

Cranial morphology of the golden monkey (Rhinopithecus) and douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus)

Because they have been less studied than most other non-human primates (partly due to the difficulties in accessing their habitat) the origins and phylogenetic relationships ofR. roxellana andR. bieti are controversial. These controversies may be clarified to some degree by adding information on the cranium. To this end, ten cranial dimensions analysed morphometrically here provide data about cranial differences among species of the genusRhinopithecus, and between species ofRhinopithecus andPygathrix nemaeus. Though more similar to each other than to any others in the same genus, the results show a significant separation betweenR. roxellana andR. bieti to the degree that they may be regarded as two different species. This confirms the conclusions of prior studies of external features, qualitative morphological characteristics and biochemical evidence (Yeet al, 1987; Zhang and Ryder, 1995; Jablonski, 1998; Penget al., 1988). The differences between these two species are mainly size-related, being highly correlated with cranial length. Other differences, probably non-size related shape differences, however, are highly correlated with cranial width. Sexual dimorphism plays a part in these findings. In relation to the other species, however, the results show that the Vietnam golden monkey (R. avunculus) has closer craniometric relationships with the douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus) rather than with the three Chinese golden monkey species. Of these, the Gouzhou species (R. brelichi) shares more similarity withR. avunculus and is more separate fromRhinopithecus roxellana and R. bieti. The smaller differentiation between the two latter species could be due to their more recent separation following the dramatic elevation of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau after the Middle Pleistocene.