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Factors Associated with Injury Rate and Pregnancy Success in Rhesus Macaques

open access: yesBiology, 2022
Fight injuries are a major welfare concern in group-housed rhesus macaques. This is particularly a problem in breeding groups. We investigated which factors might affect the injury rate in group-housed macaques and also looked at how the same factors ...
David A. Massey   +3 more
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TB and SIV Coinfection; a Model for Evaluating Vaccine Strategies against TB Reactivation in Asian Origin Cynomolgus Macaques: A Pilot Study Using BCG Vaccination

open access: yesVaccines, 2021
This pilot study aimed to determine the utility of a cynomolgus macaque model of coinfection with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) for the assessment of vaccines designed to prevent reactivation of TB. Following infection caused by aerosol exposure to
Andrew D. White   +9 more
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Natural History of Marburg Virus Infection to Support Medical Countermeasure Development

open access: yesViruses, 2022
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recognizes that the evaluation of medical countermeasures under the ...
Jason E. Comer   +13 more
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Higher social tolerance is associated with more complex facial behavior in macaques

open access: yeseLife, 2023
The social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity posits that animal societies with more complex social systems require more complex communication systems. We tested the social complexity hypothesis on three macaque species that vary in their
Alan V Rincon   +6 more
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Human and long-tailed macaque conflict in Central Java, Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Long-tailed macaques are highly adaptive in various types of habitats. Their behaviour who are accustomed to living in groups with specific activities greatly affects the home range in getting food.
Fitria Wahyuni   +2 more
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Effect of Housing Conditions on Cortisol and Body Fat Levels in Female Rhesus Macaques

open access: yesBiology, 2021
Macaques are among the most commonly used non-human primates in biomedical research. They are highly social animals, yet biomedical studies often require group-living animals to be pair-housed in a controlled environment.
Dian G. M. Zijlmans   +8 more
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Genomic analysis of the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) and the cynomolgus macaque (Macaca fascicularis) uncover polygenic signatures of reinforcement speciation

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2023
Speciation can involve phases of divergent adaptation in allopatry and ecological/reproductive character displacement in sympatry or parapatry. Reproductive character displacement can result as a means of preventing hybridization, a process known as ...
Nick Bailey   +3 more
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Brain Inflammation and Intracellular α-Synuclein Aggregates in Macaques after SARS-CoV-2 Infection

open access: yesViruses, 2022
SARS-CoV-2 causes acute respiratory disease, but many patients also experience neurological complications. Neuropathological changes with pronounced neuroinflammation have been described in individuals after lethal COVID-19, as well as in the CSF of ...
Ingrid H. C. H. M. Philippens   +17 more
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Natural History of Sudan ebolavirus to Support Medical Countermeasure Development

open access: yesVaccines, 2022
Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV) is one of four members of the Ebolavirus genus known to cause Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in humans, which is characterized by hemorrhagic fever and a high case fatality rate.
Caroline Carbonnelle   +18 more
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Macaque-tropic human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1mt): Breaking out of the host restriction factors

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2013
Macaque monkeys serve as important animal models for understanding the pathogenesis of lentiviral infections. Since human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) hardly replicates in macaque cells, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) or chimeric viruses ...
Akatsuki eSaito   +2 more
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