ABSTRACT
The blood of C. jacchus penicillata is presented...
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Animals , Blood Cell Count , Callithrix , Callithrix/bloodABSTRACT
In callitrichids, and especially in the Callithrix and Saguinus genera, reproductive suppression maintains the breeding exclusivity of dominant females. It has been suggested that dominance may be inferred from agonistic behavior of females. The purpose of this study was to assess the adequacy of behaviors as indicators of hormonal status in Callithrix jacchus females. Two paires of twin females were observed for affiliative, agonistic and sexual behaviors for 20 weeks, in four stages of increasingly potential competition for one male. During the same period, blood samples were taken regularly for progesterone determination by ELISA. The two pairs differed markedly as to behaviors and hormonal status: pair 1 showed a well established behavioral dominance and only one ovulating female from the beginning of the observation period; pair 2 showed competition for dominance until the last stage of observation, when one of the females started ovulating. Correlations between behaviors and progesterone levels showed differences between subordinate and dominant females mostly in pair 2. Although limited in number of animals studied, these results suggest that there is a relationship between behavior and hormones in female marmosets, but this relationship may be useful in the identification of the physiological status of females only in groups where the dominance is not well estblished
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Animals , Male , Female , Behavior, Animal , Callithrix/physiology , Progesterone/blood , Agonistic Behavior , Callithrix/blood , Competitive Behavior , Sexual Behavior, AnimalABSTRACT
Foram coletadas amostras de sangue e saliva de 88 Saguinus fuscicollis weddelli e 47 Callithrix emiliae, capturados às margens do rio Jamari (Rondônia), e 35 Callithrix jacchus, capturados no estado do Rio Grande do Norte. A existência de substâncias ABH foi investigada em amostras de saliva, através do método convencional de inibiçäo da hemaglutinaçäo. As três espécies apresentaram-se monomórficas para o sistem ABO,s endo os indivíduos classificados como pertencentes ao grupo sangüneo A. Esses resultados säo semelhantes a maioria dos estudos realizados anteriormente na família Callitrichidae. As amostras de plasma foram utilizadas na detecçäo de aglutininas naturais do sistema ABO, tendo-se observado discrepâncias entre os fenótipos salivar e séricos nas três espécies