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Genetic Characterization of a Captive Colony of Pigtailed Macaques (Macaca nemestrina).
Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS - 1 Jul 2017
Zhang Xinjun, Kanthaswamy Sree, Trask Jessica S, Ng Jillian, Oldt Robert F, Mankowski Joseph L, Adams Robert J, Smith David G
Abstract excerpt
Effective colony management is critical to guarantee the availability of captive NHP as subjects for biomedical research. Pigtailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) are an important model for the study of human and nonhuman primate diseases and behavior. Johns Hopkins University hosts one of the largest captive colonies of pigtailed macaques in the United States. In this study, we used 56 single-nucleotide...
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