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“Monkey influencers”: conservation culturomics of human-macaque (Macaca fascicularis) interactions
Global Ecology and ConservationConservation culturomics can offer insights into the online presence of threatened primate species, such as the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis).
Alice Fratesi +3 more
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Paternity testing for crab‐eating macaques and rhesus macaques using microsatellite markers [PDF]
Animal Models and Experimental MedicineAccurate macaque paternity identification is of great significance in various fields, yet relevant research remains scarce. Our study aimed to screen effective microsatellite markers for macaque paternity testing.
Yiming Yuan +10 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022 Non-human primates (primates) are regarded as key research subjects for pre-clinical trials of several drugs aimed to alleviate human suffering. It has long been suggested that the predominant species in the international trade in live primates for use ...
Malene Friis Hansen +9 more
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Effects of captive and primate-focused tourism on the gut microbiome of Tibetan macaques
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Documenting the effects of anthropogenic activities on the gut microbiome of wild animals is important to their conservation practices. Captivity and ecotourism are generally considered two common anthropogenic disturbances on the health of nonhuman ...
Yingna Xia +16 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Food resources, including food types, quantity, and quality, are the key factors that determine the survival and reproduction of wild animals. However, the most basic requirement is access to food.
Bo-Wen Li +12 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Immigrant males employed a range of species-specific social strategies to facilitate integration into a new social group for establishing stable dominant ranks and affiliative relationships with unfamiliar competitors who require them to adapt their ...
Cheng-Ren Zhao +10 more
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Sex-Specific Variation of Social Play in Wild Immature Tibetan Macaques, Macaca thibetana
Animals, 2021 Theories proposed to explain social play have centered on its function in establishing social relationships critical for adulthood, its function in developing motor skills needed to survive, and promoting cognitive development and social learning.
Tong Wang +6 more
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Assessing the Influence of Environmental Sources on the Gut Mycobiome of Tibetan Macaques
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 The distribution and availability of microbes in the environment has an important effect on the composition of the gut microbiome of wild vertebrates. However, our current knowledge of gut-environmental interactions is based principally on data from the ...
Binghua Sun +17 more
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Captivity Is Associated With Gut Mycobiome Composition in Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana)
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Although recent studies have revealed that gut fungi may play an important functional role in animal biology and health, little is known concerning the effects of anthropogenic pressures on the gut mycobiome.
Binghua Sun +20 more
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Conformational adaptation of Asian macaque TRIMCyp directs lineage specific antiviral activity [PDF]
, 2010 TRIMCyps are anti-retroviral proteins that have arisen independently in New World and Old World primates. All TRIMCyps comprise a CypA domain fused to the tripartite domains of TRIM5α but they have distinct lentiviral specificities, conferring HIV-1 ...
A Katzourakis +62 more
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