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Individual differences in zoo-housed squirrel monkeys’ (Saimiri sciureus) reactions to visitors, research participation, and personality ratings [PDF]

, 2017
Understanding individual differences in captive squirrel monkeys is a topic of importance both for improving welfare by catering to individual needs, and for better understanding the results and implications of behavioral research.
Anderson, Birke, Brosnan, Carder, Chamove, Choo, Cook, Davis, Fernandez, Holm, Hosey, Hosey, Hosey, Izzo, Keane, Leonardi, Macdonald, Mallapur, Margulis, Mitchell, Mitchell, Mitchell, Mitchell, Mitchell, Morton, Morton, Pritchard, Quadros, Reamer, Ridgway, Shrout, Smith, Stoinski, Todd, Watters, Weiss, Weiss, Weiss, Wells   +38 more
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Molecular data highlight hybridization in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri, Cebidae)

Genetics and Molecular Biology
Hybridization has been reported increasingly frequently in recent years, fueling the debate on its role in the evolutionary history of species. Some studies have shown that hybridization is very common in captive New World primates, and hybrid offspring ...
Jeferson Carneiro, Luis Fernando da Silva Rodrigues-Filho, Horacio Schneider, Iracilda Sampaio   +3 more
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Toxoplasmosis in squirrel monkeys: histological and immunohistochemical analysis Toxoplasmose em macacos-de-cheiro: análise histológica e imunoistoquímica

Ciência Rural, 2007
Necropsy findings in three cases of naturally occurring toxoplasmosis in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) obtained as wild catches from the Amazon region were described.
Márcia Cristina Ribeiro Andrade, Janice Mery Chicarino de Oliveira Coelho, Maria Regina Reis Amendoeira, Regiane Trigueiro Vicente, Célia Virgínia Pereira Cardoso, Paola Cristina Brandão Ferreira, Renato Sergio Marchevsky   +6 more
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A Very Strong Enhancer Is Located Upstream of an Immediate Early Gene of Human Cytomegalovirus [PDF]

, 1985
A strong transcription enhancer was identified in the genomic DNA (235 kb) of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a ubiquitous and severe pathogen of the herpesvirus group.
Boshart, Michael, Dorsch-Häsler, Karoline, Fleckenstein, Bernhard, Jahn, Gerhard, Schaffner, Walter, Weber, Frank   +5 more
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Filariopsis barretoi (travassos, 1921) (Nematoda: metastrongyloidea) lung parasite of primates from South America - taxonomy, synonyms and pathology

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1988
Nematodes and fragments of lungs from Cebus ssp., Callithrix jacchus (l.) and Saimiri sciureus (L.) were studied. The worms from Cebus and Callithrix must be called Filariopsis barretoi (Travassos, 1921).
A. Arandas Rego, G. Schaeffer
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Saimiri sciureus' hard palate morphology

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2012
Primate order includes around 180 species. Morphological aspects of New World non-human primates (NHP) have been extensively investigated since last century.
Ana R. Lima, Emerson T. Fioretto, Aline A. Imbeloni, Érika Branco   +3 more
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Life history of the most complete fossil primate skeleton: exploring growth models for Darwinius [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2015
Darwinius is an adapoid primate from the Eocene of Germany, and its only known specimen represents the most complete fossil primate ever found. Its describers hypothesized a close relationship to Anthropoidea, and using a Saimiri model estimated its age ...
Sergi López-Torres, Michael A. Schillaci, Mary T. Silcox   +2 more
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How task format affects cognitive performance:a memory test with two species of New World monkeys [PDF]

, 2016
In cognitive tests, animals are often given a choice between two options and obtain a reward if they choose correctly. We investigated whether task format affects subjects' performance in a physical cognition test.
Burkart, Judith M., Kissling, Alexandra, Schubiger, Michele N.   +2 more
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Presença do Plasmodium brasilianum em macacos capturados na área de enchimento do reservatório da usina hidrelétrica de Tucuruí, Pará Presence of Plasmodium brasilianum in monkeys captured in the area of the flood of the dam of Tucuruí power plant, Pará

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1985
Examinando-se o sangue de 2.046 primatas capturados durante a "Operação Curupira" encontraram-se plasmódios semelhantes ao Plasmodium brasilianum em sete espécies ou subespécies: Alouatta belzebul belzebul, Alouatta belzebul nigerrima, Alouatta seniculus,
Mércia Eliane de Arruda
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Blood ties: ABO is a trans-species polymorphism in primates [PDF]

, 2012
The ABO histo-blood group, the critical determinant of transfusion incompatibility, was the first genetic polymorphism discovered in humans. Remarkably, ABO antigens are also polymorphic in many other primates, with the same two amino acid changes ...
A. Venkat, Allison, Becquet, Boren, C. Ober, Calafell, Castric, Charlesworth, Clausen, Diamond, Doxiadis, E. E. Thompson, G. Sella, Goldman, Hobolth, J. Lovstad, J. Moyse, K. Gamble, Kominato, L. Segurel, M. Przeworski, McVean, Oriol, Patterson, Perelman, Reid, Ronquist, S. Ross, S. W. Margulis, Saitou, Scally, Stephens, T. Flutre, Takahata, Wooding, Yamamoto, Yamamoto, Yamamoto, Yang   +38 more
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