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The SNPRC
is home to more than 3,400 nonhuman primates, including
chimpanzees and a variety of monkey species. By far the
majority, though, are baboons. With approximately 3,000
of these animals, SFBR has the world's largest colony of
baboons for biomedical research. Approximately 2,000 of
these baboons are part of a unique pedigreed colony, on
which scientists have maintained complete family, health
and genetic histories for six generations. More than 900
of the animals in the pedigreed colony have been genotyped,
and that information has been used by SFBR scientists to
create a baboon genetic linkage map, the first gene map
of any nonhuman primate. Together, the pedigreed colony
and the baboon gene map give scientists an incredibly
powerful research tool for finding the genes that underlie
natural susceptibility to or protection from a variety
of diseases.
To
learn more about the primate species at SNPRC, click on
the links below:
SNPRC has an extensive environmental
enrichment program.
The goal of the program is to provide a better home for the
monkeys and apes housed in our facilities. We give them opportunities
to express species-typical behaviors that are found normally
in primates living in the wild. »Read
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