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Species of New World monkey
Nancy Ma's night monkey (Aotus nancymaae ) is a
night monkey
species from
South America . It is found in
Brazil and
Peru . The species is named after Dr. Nancy Shui-Fong Ma.
[3]
It is known in medical research as a
model organism for studying the
Duffy antigen . Nancy Ma's night monkeys have also been found to have an evolutionary pattern change in the hormone oxytocin. It was believed that all placental mammals had the same OXT amino acid chain until the discovery of a change in this New World monkey and others.
[4]
References
^
Groves, C. P. (2005).
Wilson, D. E. ; Reeder, D. M. (eds.).
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 140.
ISBN
0-801-88221-4 .
OCLC
62265494 .
^ Maldonado, A.; Guzman-Caro, D.; Shanee, S.; Defler, T.R. & Roncancio, N. (2017).
"Aotus nancymaae " .
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 : e.T41540A121725532.
doi :
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T41540A121725532.en .
^
"Nancy Ma's Night Monkey, Aotus nancymaae | New England Primate Conservancy" . neprimateconservancy.org . 2022-02-16. Retrieved 2023-01-29 .
^ Vargas-Pinilla, Pedro; Paixão-Côrtes, Vanessa Rodrigues; Paré, Pamela; Tovo-Rodrigues, Luciana; Vieira, Carlos Meton de Alencar Gadelha; Xavier, Agatha; Comas, David; Pissinatti, Alcides; Sinigaglia, Marialva; Rigo, Maurício Menegatti; Vieira, Gustavo Fioravanti (2014-12-22).
"Evolutionary pattern in the OXT-OXTR system in primates: Coevolution and positive selection footprints" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 112 (1): 88–93.
doi :
10.1073/pnas.1419399112 .
ISSN
0027-8424 .
PMC
4291646 .
PMID
25535371 .
Aotus (Night monkeys)
Gray-neck group :Red-neck group :