Across the animal kingdom, parents in many species devote extraordinary effort toward
caring for offspring, often risking their lives and exhausting limited resources. Understanding …

The neurohormone oxytocin is a key player in the modulation of reproductive and social
behavioral traits, such as parental care. Recently, a correlation between different forms of …

Traits that undergo massive natural selection pressure, with multiple events of positive
selection, are hard to find. Social behaviour, in social animals, is crucial for survival, and …

Abstract Platyrrhini (New World monkeys, NWm) are a group of primates characterized by
behavioral and reproductive traits that are otherwise uncommon among primates, including …

The completion of the common marmoset genome marked an entry into a new era for the
species as an animal model. It allows for the full toolset of the postgenomic era to be applied …

A ordem Primata (Primates) compreende dois clados maiores que divergiram há
aproximadamente 87 Ma: Strepsirrhini e Haplorrhini. Dentre os Haplorrhini, Platyrrhini é o …

Macacos-prego da espécie Sapajus libidinosus são amplamente conhecidos pelo uso
regular de ferramentas nos biomas brasileiros do Cerrado e da Caatinga. Os principais …

Ahistória do Departamento de Genética da Uni-versidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
(UFRGS) teve início com o modesto Laboratório de Drosophila, fundado por Antônio …