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SUBMITTER: Kanthaswamy S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2664393 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of medical primatology 20080818 2
<h4>Background</h4>Fullbred Chinese and Indian rhesus macaques represent genetically distinct populations. The California National Primate Research Center introduced Chinese founders into its Indian-derived rhesus colony in response to the 1978 Indian embargo on exportation of animals for research and the concern that loss of genetic variation in the closed colony would hamper research efforts. The resulting hybrid rhesus now number well over a thousand animals and represent a growing proportion ...[more]