Primatology: Monkey Bromance

Primatology: Monkey Bromance

problem (hybrid seed sterility) snowball with divergence while another (hybrid pollen sterility) does not? The snowball prediction depends on the combinatorial pile-up of pairs, triplets, and so on, of independently accumulated substitutions, each of which has some probability of being incompatible. But if a substitution can be incompatible only with substitutions at one other specific locus, t...

Social organisation and SIV sero-epidemiology of a patas monkey population in Senegal.

Cross-amplified polymorphic microsatellites for Campbell's monkey.

Population genetic analyses are of considerable importance for conservation strategies to protect endangered primates. We tested microsatellites of human origin with an aim to understand the genetic diversity of a West African forest guenon, Campbell's monkey, Cercopithecus campbelli. Twelve markers amplified successfully, were polymorphic and were inherited in a Mendelian fashion in a group of...

Social and personal information use by squirrel monkeys in assessing predation risk.

The threat of predation can significantly influence prey behaviors through altered perceptions of risk. Prey risk perception is constantly updated via collection of personal and social information about predators. Better understanding of the links between information availability, its use, and prey species' perception of risk will aid in explaining how animals adapt to predation. The goal of th...

A rhesus monkey reference label atlas for template driven segmentation.

BACKGROUND We have acquired dual-echo spin-echo (DE SE) MRI data of the rhesus monkey brain since 1994 as part of an ongoing study of normal aging. To analyze these legacy data for regional volume changes, we have created a reference label atlas for the Template Driven Segmentation (TDS) algorithm. METHODS The atlas was manually created from DE SE legacy MRI data of one behaviorally normal, y...