Genetic variation in prosimian species

Schefrahn et al. (1998a,b) aimed to outline the possible contributions of g enetics to conservation biology: the determination of genetic variation of wild groups and its use as a guideline in breeding programs. Unfortunately, the amount of genetic variation within wild groups of nonhuman primates is rarely known. In particular, this observation holds for prosimians. Averag e heterozygosity is widely considered to be a good indicator of the magnitu de of intraspecific variation. We provide some values of average heterozygo sity of wild populations of Otolemur garnettii, Eulemur macaco macaco and E . m. flavifrons.