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What is a marmoset?

D Haig1

  • 1Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. dhaig@oeb.harvard.edu

American Journal of Primatology
|November 30, 1999
PubMed
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Callitrichid primates are born as somatic chimeras, with each twin possessing cells from two sibling genotypes. This unique chimerism may explain their complex social behaviors, including alloparental care and reproductive suppression.

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