Previous studies have shown that
rhesus macaque skin coloration is involved in mate selection - both males and females show interest in darker red faces displayed in the opposite sex.
Not exact matches
When injected into the
skin of six
rhesus macaque monkeys, the vaccine prompted an immune response that blocked the proteins from popping up in the brain.
The team of scientists collected more than 250 facial images of free - ranging
rhesus macaques, which are native to South, Central and Southeast Asia and which display red
skin coloring around the face, as well as the genital and hind - quarter areas.
The collaborative international research also shows that
skin coloration in male and female
rhesus macaques is an inherited quality — the first example of heritability for a sexually - selected trait to be described in any mammal.
Using a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a team from Oregon Health & Science University (O.H.S.U.) in Portland implanted the contents of individual
skin cells from adult male
rhesus macaques into each of 304
macaque egg cells stripped of their genetic material.
Sexual
skin color contains information about the timing of the fertile phase in free - ranging
rhesus macaques.
The research team at Oregon Health & Science University used
skin cells from
rhesus macaque monkeys to create the cloned embryos.