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  genome.gov | 2007 Release: Analysis of Rhesus Monkey Genome Uncovers Genetic Differences With Humans, Chimps
The rhesus genome is the second non-human primate, after the chimp, to have its genome sequenced and is the first of the Old World monkeys to have its DNA deciphered.
The sequencing of the rhesus genome was conducted at the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., which are part of the NHGRI-supported Large-Scale Sequencing Research Network.
In addition to comparing the rhesus with the chimp and human genomes, the group also studied genetic variation in macaque populations, and developed a set of "single nucleotide polymorphisms" or SNPs (single base DNA differences) that can be used for future analysis of inheritance of biomedically important traits in rhesus.
www.genome.gov /25520551   (778 words)

  
  Rhesus Monkey - MSN Encarta
Rhesus Monkey, macaque found throughout India and Nepal, eastern Afghanistan, and northeastern China and Indochina, and held sacred by the Hindus.
Because they are physiologically similar to humans, rhesus monkeys have been used as research animals to an extent that has greatly reduced their population; India now bars their exportation.
The monkeys have been used extensively in research on human blood chemistry, and the Rh factor in blood derives its name from them.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560421/Rhesus_Monkey.html   (301 words)

  
 ADW: Macaca mulatta: Information
The disproportionately large testicles of male rhesus monkeys, and the increase in size of their testicles during the breeding season, is probably related to the number of times a male can copulate over a short period of time.
For example, rhesus that live in the mountain forests of northern Pakistan feed primarily on clovers during the summer, but during winter when snow covers the ground they are forced to switch to foods with lower nutritional values and higher fiber contents, such as pine needles and oak leaves.
The common name, rhesus monkey, is responsible for the naming of the hereditary blood antigen Rh-factor that was discovered on their red blood cells in 1940.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Macaca_mulatta.html   (1664 words)

  
 Rhesus Monkey
Rhesus monkeys adapt well to a wide range of habitats, from the hot, dry temperatures of the desert to colder, winter temperatures.
Rhesus monkeys live in groups of 10 to 200, formed of closely related females and a few unrelated males.
Rhesus monkeys are held sacred in many parts of India, and large groups of them live near Buddhist or Hindu temples, where monks treat them with affection.
www.wildinfo.net /facts/Rhesus.asp   (545 words)

  
 Monkey's escape may sink biodefense lab
The escape of a small gray and tan monkey from a UC Davis medical research center may threaten a proposed high-security lab on campus to study deadly infectious organisms such as anthrax and smallpox that could be used as terrorist weapons.
The 4-pound rhesus macaque monkey vanished two weeks ago as her cage was being cleaned at the California National Primate Research Center, where she was used for breeding purposes and was "disease free," according to the university.
The research center currently supplies monkeys to other UC campuses for Level 2 and 3 research such as cancer, asthma and AIDS, and it is one of eight centers nationwide supported by the NIH to conduct medical research.
www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/bioter/monkeyescapedavis.html   (746 words)

  
 aa-rhesus-monkey
Rhesus macaques are brown and adults have a red face and rump.
For example, rhesus that live in the mountain forests of northern Pakistan feed primarily on clovers during the summer, but during winter when snow covers the ground they are forced to switch to foods with lower nutritional values and higher fiber contents such as pine needles and oak leaves.
The common name, rhesus monkey, is responsible for the naming of the hereditary blood antigen Rh-factor that was discovered on their red blood cells in 1940.
www.direkte-aktie.net /koen/aa-rhesus-monkey.html   (1586 words)

  
 BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Rhesus monkey
Rhesus monkeys were also the first primates to be rocketed into space.
Rhesus monkeys live for about four years in the wild, although in captivity, they can live for up to 30 years.
Rhesus monkeys have brown fur, and the adults have a red face and rump.
www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/211.shtml   (251 words)

  
 Structure of the Rhesus Monkey Photoreceptor Mosaic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the rhesus macaque 1 mm is equal to approximately 3.5° of visual angle.
The topographic distribution of both rods and cones outside of the fovea is non-uniform in the monkey retina with a pronounced center to periphery gradient in receptor density.
The relative nasal elevation in cone density in the monkey retina may be the result of preferential expansion of the temporal periphery after the placement of cones into the mosaic.
mickey.utmem.edu /papers/WiklerJCN1989.html   (6738 words)

  
 The Level of CD4 Expression Limits Infection of Primary Rhesus Monkey Macrophages by a T-Tropic Simian Immunodeficiency ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
of a rhesus monkey infected with SIVmac239 (25).
Rhesus monkey macrophages were incubated with recombinant CAT reporter viruses (50,000 RT units/ml) with the envelope glycoproteins of SIVmac316 in the presence of increasing concentrations of the anti-CD4 antibody OKT4a (A) or sCD4 (C).
of a rhesus monkey infected with SIVmac239 (41, 44, 55).
jvi.asm.org /cgi/content/full/74/23/10984   (7085 words)

  
 The Myth of the Aggressive Monkey
Gisler, Benson, and Young (1960) warned that "the rhesus monkey is extremely nervous and energetic and is difficult to house.
The myth of the aggressive rhesus macaque probably is based on unsuccessful attempts at socializing individually caged animals and on the relatively frequent occurrence of scratch and bite wounds inflicted on personnel during enforced handling procedures (Zakaria, Lerche, Chomel, and Kass, 1996).
Training rhesus macaques to cooperate during procedures makes these defense reactions superfluous because the trainer has developed and fostered a relationship based on trust rather than fear, and the animal is partially in control rather than coerced during the interaction with the handler (Reinhardt, 1991).
www.awionline.org /Lab_animals/biblio/jaaws8.html   (2694 words)

  
 Rhesus Monkey -- Pictures, Animal Facts, Habitats, Video, Sound, Wallpaper -- National Geographic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rhesus monkeys are familiar brown primates with red faces and rears.
Rhesus monkeys have an important history with humans and have aided a great deal of medical and scientific research.
Rhesus antigens found in their blood enabled doctors to identify the different human blood groups.
channel.nationalgeographic.com /animals/mammals/rhesus-monkey.html   (401 words)

  
 Mammals » Primates » Macaque - Rhesus Main Page
The Rhesus Macaque, also known as a Rhesus Monkey, is one of the better-known monkeys.
The Rhesus monkey is both arboreal and terrestrial; in addition they have a great love of water and are commonly seen swimming and playing in it.
The Rhesus Macaque is a medium sized primate with mature males weighing six kilograms and mature females weighing approximately three kilograms.
www.centralpets.com /animals/mammals/primates/pri4683.html   (837 words)

  
 Monkeyzone.com - Aggressive Rhesus Behavior
With a Rhesus it could even choose the biggest and strongest just to see if he can start at the top of the ladder and work his way down in rank, they have attitude way bigger than they are in size.
Monkeys will dominate if they can and if you have small kids, keeping them away from the monkey is probably best if they can not discipline.
My monkeys are lucky in that they have human contact all day cause there is always someone here with them, most of the day is spent in caging wither it be inside or out.
www.monkeyzone.com /handling_aggressive_rhesus_monkey.htm   (1528 words)

  
 Rhesus Monkey Skull
Rhesus Monkey - The rhesus monkey is native to much of China as well as Afghanistan, India and Nepal.
The rhesus is omnivorous and diurnal and lives freely in the forest as well as within human cities.
Rhesus are a troop dwelling species with groups ranging from 5 too 100 individuals.
www.skullsunlimited.com /Rhesus_Monkey.html   (145 words)

  
 Birds and Nature: The Rhesus Monkey
This hill is indeed the hill of the monkeys.
But, however that may be, it is a fact that the Hindoos protect the monkeys in every possible way, willingly sharing their food with the bands which are found almost everywhere, and permitting no one to kill them.
The mother monkeys were most assiduous in the care of their young, but in educating them one of the most important lessons was to teach them to steal successfully.
www.birdnature.com /dec1901/monkey.html   (544 words)

  
 First test-tube rhesus monkey healthy and virile after 15 years (Aug 20, 1998)
Arriving nearly five years after the birth of Louise Brown, the first human born through the technique of in-vitro fertilization, Petri was hailed as a critical model, a window to the future health and fecundity of humans born through the then-revolutionary method of uniting egg and sperm in a test-tube.
In addition, rhesus macaques and humans, at the genetic level, are nearly the same, sharing a genome that is more than 90 percent identical.
The IVF rhesus monkey model is extremely important, according to Richard Rawlins, director of the In-Vitro Fertilization/Assisted Reproductive Technology Laboratories at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago.
www.news.wisc.edu /3076.html   (883 words)

  
 Rhesus Monkey ANDi at OHSU
Schatten attributes the miscarriage to the fact that Rhesus twins are rare, but the team is investigating whether it might be related to the inserted gene.
Schatten predicts that "genetically altered monkeys could be a boon to developmental biologists as well." Because monkeys are large enough to fit into magnetic resonance imaging machines, researchers might be able to introduce gene markers and track organ development by noninvasive means.
Transgenic rhesus monkeys carrying the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene were produced by injecting pseudotyped replication-defective retroviral vector into the perivitelline space of 224 mature rhesus oocytes, later fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
www.grg.org /OHSUmonkey.htm   (2590 words)

  
 Rhesus Monkey -- Pictures, Animal Facts, Habitats, Video, Sound, Wallpaper -- National Geographic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rhesus monkeys are familiar brown primates with red faces and rears.
Rhesus monkeys have an important history with humans and have aided a great deal of medical and scientific research.
Rhesus antigens found in their blood enabled doctors to identify the different human blood groups.
www3.nationalgeographic.com /animals/mammals/rhesus-monkey.html   (401 words)

  
 Rhesus Monkey Genome Sequenced, Available in Public Database
The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is the second non-human primate, after the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), to have its genome sequenced, and is the first of the Old World monkeys to have its DNA deciphered.
The sequencing of the rhesus genome was conducted at the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in St. Louis and at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., which are part of the NHGRI-supported Large-Scale Sequencing Research Network.
Rhesus macaques are used for essential research in neuroscience, behavioral biology, reproductive physiology, endocrinology and cardiovascular studies.
technocrat.net /d/2006/2/10/428   (687 words)

  
 Persistent HIV 2 infection of rhesus monkey.
Methods: Inoculation: Eight rhesus monkeys were inoculated 3 years ago first IV and IC by 107 in vitro HIV2 ROD-infected cells, then, 1 year ago, IV reinoculated with supernatant of PBL coculture of an infected monkey which presented clinical signs of AIDS.
In addition, one monkey was IV inoculated de novo with this supernatant, as a positif control of infection.
Conclusion: Rhesus monkeys are susceptible to HIV2 infection.
gateway.nlm.nih.gov /MeetingAbstracts/102197634.html   (448 words)

  
 Rhesus Monkey pictures
The name, Rhesus Monkeys, is connected to the naming of the hereditary blood antigen Rh factor that was discovered on their red blood cells in 1940.
As these are the closest relatives of humans, the Rhesus Monkeys have become the primary target of biomedical and behavioral research using primates.
Rhesus Monkeys who have evolved to keep track of complex social interactions among large groups are reduced to entertaining themselves in small mind-numbing cubicles.
www.rhesus-monkeys.com /rhesus-monkeys-pictures.htm   (358 words)

  
 Reactivation of a Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in a Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta) Experimentally Infected with SIV -- ...
Reactivation of a Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in a Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta) Experimentally Infected with SIV -- Kunz et al.
Reactivation of a Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in a Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta) Experimentally Infected with SIV
Marinkelle CJ: The prevalence of Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi cruzi infection in Colombian monkeys and marmorsets.
www.vetpathology.org /cgi/content/full/39/6/721   (2068 words)

  
 Manish Vij: Rhesus pieces: Monkey mayhem arrested in Patiala
Because it’s unacceptable to kill an animal referenced throughout Hindu mythology, miscreant monkeys in New Delhi and Punjab are sent to a monkey jail and locked away behind monkey bars.
Kaur, once bitten by a monkey, said she was happy this monkey was gone....
She said monkeys can be rehabilitated, taught in sanctuaries to live in groups and eventually released into the forest.
www.vij.com /archive/rhesus_pieces.html   (454 words)

  
 Oregon National Primate Research Center Plays Key Role in Genome Project
Rhesus macaques are the most common and preferred monkey species used in biomedical research due to the vast amounts of scientific data that already exist on the monkeys and their many similarities to humans including their immune system, reproductive system, neurobiology, genetics and overall anatomy.
Of the approximately 4,000 monkeys at the Oregon National Primate Research Center, 3,600 are rhesus macaque monkeys.
In addition, this new work led to the development of a new genetic test to distinguish Indian and Chinese rhesus macaques, which is being used at research centers throughout the country.
www.ohsu.edu /ohsuedu/newspub/releases/041207rhesusgenome.cfm   (744 words)

  
 Rhesus macaque Genome Project
Rhesus monkeys are used for essential research in neuroscience, behavioral biology, reproductive physiology, endocrinology, cardiovascular studies, pharmacology and other areas.
Evolutionary and Biomedical Insights from the Rhesus Macaque Genome.
Rhesus macaque companion publications are found in Science, April 13, 2007.
www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu /projects/rmacaque   (325 words)

  
 [monkeywire] Man-monkey conflict spreads through India
These weren't humans; they were rhesus macaques stuffed into sacks and clubbed to death before being dumped in the fields of Basana, Haryana.
Jammu and Kashmir (where the late music producer Gulshan Kumar sent fruits by the truckload for the monkeys at Vaishno Devi temple), Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Kerala are also struggling to cope with aggressive monkeys that forage in troops up to 200 strong.
She says India's rhesus macaque population has jumped from 2 lakh in 1980 to 5 lakh now.
lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/monkeywire/2004-September/000678.html   (1128 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Monkey News
Monkeys Adapt Robot Arm As Their Own (May 11, 2005) -- Monkeys that learn to use their brain signals to control a robotic arm are not just learning to manipulate an external device, Duke University Medical Center neurobiologists have found.
Rhesus Macaque -- The Rhesus Macaque often called the Rhesus Monkey, is one of the best known species of Old World monkeys.
Monkey -- A monkey is any member of two of the three groupings of simian primates.
www.sciencedaily.com /news/plants_animals/monkeys/display=summaries&page=6   (1342 words)

  
 ABC News: Monkeys Steal When No One's Looking
A rhesus monkey on the Puerto Rican island of Cayo Santiago.
Young children with autism, for example, are unable to "attend to the eyes" of another human, as he puts it, and the rhesus monkey may guide researchers toward a treatment for autism as well as other disabilities.
By studying the cellular structure of the monkey's brain, for example, scientists might now be able to determine exactly how the monkey uses another's eyes to determine the mental state, and thus why a child with autism cannot do the same.
abcnews.go.com /Technology/DyeHard/story?id=603706&page=1   (323 words)

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