Sentences with phrase «while rhesus»

All titi monkeys are maintained in small social groups, while rhesus macaques are maintained in small or large social groups.

Not exact matches

The rhesus monkeys were trained to move their hands to a light cue on a touch screen (for example from the center of the screen to the left), while at the same time the activity of neurons in their posterior parietal cortex was recorded.

Falk suspects the size discrepancy can be linked to the philandering tendencies of our primate ancestors.Falk found that like humans, male rhesus monkeys had larger brains than females, while male and female gibbon apes were equally endowed.

While the non-native rhesus macaque resides in Silver Springs State Park, the rest of Florida is home to more non-native wildlife species than any other state.

Then, in 2003, a group of scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine made an important discovery while studying the cloned embryos of rhesus monkeys.

While mice, guinea pigs, dogs, rabbits and monkeys have been used as animal models to study B. burgdorferi infection, rhesus macaques have been shown to most closely recapitulate the multi-organ nature and progression of human LD [26, 27].