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Lemurs' fur color may not define species

16th Nov 2006, 11:40 GMT

Different coat color might not correspond to different species for nocturnal lemurs. In a study published today in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, researchers find that lemurs that appeared to belong to different species because they have strikingly different coat colors, are in fact genetically related and belong to the same species.

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