Monitoring reproduction in Callitrichidae by means of ultrasonography

Oerke, Ann‐Kathrin; Heistermann, Michael; Küderling, I.; Martín, Robert D.; Hodges, J. K.

doi:10.1002/evan.10087

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“…It therefore is most likely that these traits represent a shared derived condition. In this regard, Oerke and colleagues 92 conclude that, "The simplest explanation . .…”

Section: Box 2 Did Ancestral Callimico Twin?mentioning

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Goeldi's monkeys: A primate paradox?

Porter

Garber

2004

Evolutionary Anthropology

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Abstract“A primate with the skull of a Callicebus, the mandible and feet of a marmoset and the tail and teeth of Pseudocebus [=Cebus] ….” (Riberio, 1941 as cited in Hershkovitz1 p. 866). Goeldi's monkeys are the least understood species of platyrrhine. The monkeys' small body size, black coloration, tendency to forage in the low forest understory, and cryptic nature, make them difficult to observe in the wild. Until recently, they had never been the focus of a long‐term field study and as a result, little was known of the monkeys' behavior and ecology. Goeldi's monkeys comprise only one recognized species, Callimico goeldii, and have an unusual suite of anatomical and reproductive traits. These traits have created considerable confusion for taxonomists and physical anthropologists.

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“…It therefore is most likely that these traits represent a shared derived condition. In this regard, Oerke and colleagues 92 conclude that, "The simplest explanation . .…”

Section: Box 2 Did Ancestral Callimico Twin?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Goeldi's monkeys: A primate paradox?

Porter

Garber

2004

Evolutionary Anthropology

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“…Despite these differences, there is increasing evidence that C. goeldii is closely related to the other callitrichids. For example, delayed embryonic development is present in C. goeldii and the other twinning callitrichids, a trait not found in other platyrrhines (Oerke et al 2002). C. goeldii neonates also show a pattern of secondary limbbone ossification more similar to the pattern observed in C. jacchus than to Saguinus or other platyrrhines (Hofmann et al 2007).…”

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Maternal care and infant development in Callimico goeldii and Callithrix jacchus

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Callimico goeldii gives birth to single offspring, whereas other callitrichids, including Callithrix jacchus, twin. This study compares maternal effort and infant development in C. goeldii and C. jacchus; it is the first study to look at nursing frequency. Infants were observed from birth for 7 weeks in two captive groups each of C. goeldii and C. jacchus. C. goeldii mothers physiologically invested the same or less than C. jacchus mothers. C. goeldii mothers gained the same amount of weight during pregnancy in absolute terms as did the smaller C. jacchus. This results in a smaller gain in proportion to maternal weight but an equivalent proportional gain on a per fetus basis. C. goeldii mothers nursed their infants less based on duration of nursing bouts compared with C. jacchus mothers. C. goeldii mothers transported their infants exclusively through the first 2 weeks of life, which is longer than C. jacchus mothers, who exclusively transported infants only during the first week of life. As maternal infant carriage declined, other group members transported offspring in both species. C. goeldii infants engaged in independent locomotive sequences later in development and tasted solid foods less frequently than C. jacchus infants when compared at equivalent ages. A single, opportunistic milk sample obtained from a C. goeldii mother when her infant was 48 days old indicates that C. goeldii milk contains gross energy from crude protein within the range of variation observed in Callithrix milk. Despite the similarities in milk quality and prenatal effort in individual fetuses, C. goeldii infants gain weight faster from 0 to 18 months than do C. jacchus infants. A reduction in litter size allows C. goeldii mothers to spend more time carrying their infant and to delay weaning, thereby allowing accelerated infant and juvenile growth rates compared with C. jacchus.

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“…Marroig and Cheverud (4) previously proposed that the miniaturization of callitrichines could be accomplished almost entirely in utero given their strikingly different prenatal growth pattern (51)(52)(53)(54). This timing of the development of the placenta and organogenesis is unusual, with the embryo being quiescent until around day 40, such that organogenesis lags behind that observed in other primates by about 3 wk (55). The smallest of all primates, dwarf and mouse lemurs (Cheirogaleidae), are characterized by multiple births but combined with a primitive horned uterus.…”

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“…Whereas the majority of callitrichines, including Callimico, have a gestation period of around 140-145 d, with the early developmental lag as described above, two groups, the cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) and the lion tamarins (Leontopithecus), deviate from this pattern. S. oedipus has an unusually long gestation period of 183 d (59), and ultrasound results suggest that this lengthening of gestation is due to a lengthening of the lag period (55). In contrast, the largest of the tamarins, Leontopithecus, have a significantly shorter gestation period of ∼122 d (60).…”

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Evolutionary genetics and implications of small size and twinning in callitrichine primates

Harris

Tardif

Vinař

et al. 2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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New World monkeys (NWMs) are characterized by an extensive size range, with clawed NWMs (subfamily Callitrichinae, or callitrichines) such as the common marmoset manifesting diminutive size and unique reproductive adaptations. Perhaps the most notable of these adaptations is their propensity toward multiple gestations (i.e., dichorionic twins and trichorionic triplets). Indeed, with the exception of Goeldi's monkey (Callimico), callitrichine singleton pregnancies rarely occur. Multiple gestations seem to have coevolved with a suite of reproductive adaptations, including hematopoetic chimerism of siblings, suppression of reproduction in nondominant females, and cooperative alloparenting. The sequencing of the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) genome offers the opportunity to explore the genetic basis of these unusual traits within this primate lineage. In this study, we hypothesized that genetic changes arising during callitrichine evolution resulted in multiple ovulated ova with each cycle, and that these changes triggered adaptations that minimized complications common to multiple gestations in other primates, including humans. Callitrichine-specific nonsynonymous substitutions were identified in GDF9, BMP15, BMP4, and WFIKKN1. WFIKKN1, a multidomain protease inhibitor that binds growth factors and bone morphogenetic proteins, has nonsynonymous changes found exclusively in common marmosets and other tested callitrichine species that twin. In the one callitrichine species that does not produce twins (Callimico), this change has reverted back to the ancestral (nontwinning) primate sequence. Polymorphisms in GDF9 occur among human cohorts with a propensity for dizygotic twins, and polymorphisms in GDF9 and BMP15 are associated with twinning in sheep. We postulate that positive selection affected NWM growth patterns, with callitrichine miniaturization coevolving with a series of reproductive adaptations.reproductive biology | primate evolution

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Monitoring reproduction in Callitrichidae by means of ultrasonography

Cited by 15 publications

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Goeldi's monkeys: A primate paradox?

Goeldi's monkeys: A primate paradox?

Maternal care and infant development in Callimico goeldii and Callithrix jacchus

Evolutionary genetics and implications of small size and twinning in callitrichine primates

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