AnAge entry for Saguinus oedipus

Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits

One 26.2 year old animal was still alive in captivity [0671]. Amyloid-beta protein plaque deposits typical of Alzheimer's disease, but not neurofibrillary tangles, were observed in the brains of animals over 12 years of age, suggesting these animals may develop early Alzheimer's disease pathology [0824].

Life history traits (averages)

Metabolism

References

[0824] Lemere et al. (2008), Cerebral amyloid-Beta protein accumulation with aging in cotton-top tamarins: a model of early Alzheimer's disease?, PubMed
[0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
[0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
[0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
[0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
[0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
[0463] Austad (1997), Small nonhuman primates as potential models of human aging, PubMed
[0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
[0321] Letcher (1992), Survey of Saguinus mortality in a zoo colony, PubMed
[0322] Tardif and Ziegler (1992), Features of female reproductive senescence in tamarins (Saguinus spp.), a New World primate, PubMed
[0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
[0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
[0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves

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