The Evolution of The Human Brain: Apes and Other Ancestors

J.D. Schall , ... P. Pouget , in Development of Nervous Systems (Second Edition), 2017

four.15.four.2.1 Lorisoidea (Galago)

Galagos are nocturnal primates living in low forests. Arboreal animals, they move by quadrupedal walking and leaping. Galagos have relatively large eyes with a rudimentary fovea supporting relatively depression vigil vision ( DeBruyn et al., 1980; Stone and Johnston, 1981). Among primates they rely least on vision. Considering of the relatively large size of the optics, galagos have a limited range of heart movements and compensate for this with more head movements to explore novel objects (Rogers et al., 1993; Cantalupo et al., 2002). Although their form of locomotion might suggest that they rely on adept eye–hand coordination for their agile leaping, they primarily use olfactory and auditory information. Galagos accept large ears with great mobility that are continuously moving. As insectivores, they rely on sound to localize their prey (Charles-Dominique, 1977).

Electrical stimulation of a small region medial to the anterior frontal sulcus evokes contraversive eye movements (Wu et al., 2000; Fig. ane). This very restricted representation of heart movements was compensated by a larger representation of ear movements in the cortex caudal to FEF (Fogassi et al., 1994). While the more than rostral region had cytoarchitectonic characteristics of FEF seen in other species with a granular layer 4 and medium-to-large densely packed layer 5 pyramidal neurons, the caudal region appeared more than dysgranular (Preuss and Goldman-Rakic, 1991). Similar FEF in macaques the rostral region is continued with the multiform segmentation of the mediodorsal nucleus and with the intermediate and superficial layers of the superior colliculus (Markowitsch et al., 1980; Preuss and Goldman-Rakic, 1991).

Figure 1. Map of middle and body movements elicited by intracortical microstimulation in Galago garnetti. The frontal eye field (FEF) is highlighted red, located rostral to premotor cortex. Smooth pursuit eye movements were evoked at more caudal sites, and saccadic eye movements, more than rostral. Curiously, a supplementary eye field was non establish.

 Reproduction from Wu, C.W., Bichot, N.P., Kaas, J.H., 2000. Converging bear witness from microstimulation, architecture, and connections for multiple motor areas in the frontal and cingulate cortex of prosimian primates. J. Comp. Neurol. 423, 140–177.

Curiously, a dorsomedial center field corresponding to the supplementary eye field has not been found (Wu et al., 2000). Inquiry with macaque monkeys and humans has led to the general conclusion that the supplementary eye field contributes to high level, executive command of gaze behavior (eg, Schall and Boucher, 2007). If correct, the absenteeism of a supplementary eye field in galagos could exist understood in light of the stimulus-bound simplicity of galago behavior relative to that of macaques and humans. Regardless, this reminds u.s.a. that the number and arrangement of cortical areas mediating gaze control need non exist equivalent across species.

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The Prosimians

John G. Fleagle , in Primate Adaptation and Development (3rd Edition), 2013

Galagids

The galagos, or bushbabies, are a far more diverse group than previously realized ( Table 4.7), and the numbers of genera and species continue to grow with the increasing use of genetics, likewise equally new behavioral techniques for studying nocturnal primates. Current authorities recognize v genera and at least xviii species (e.g., Nekaris and Bearder, 2011).

Table 4.seven. Infraorder LORISIFORMES

Family GALAGIDAE

Common name Species Intermembral index Mass (g)
Thou F
Cross River Allen's bushbaby Sciurocheirus cameroonensis - 281 258
Bioko Allen's bushbaby S. alleni (Bioko) - 429 446
Gabon Allen's bushbaby S. gabonensis - 260
Kenya declension dwarf galago Galagoides cocos - 150 137
Demidoff'southward dwarf galago G. demidovii 68 63 60
Mozambique dwarf galago K. granti - 134
Mount dwarf galago G. orinus - 89.6
Rondo dwarf galago G. rondoensis - 69 67
Thomas' dwarf galago Grand. thomasi 67 103 130
Zanzibar bushbaby M. zanzibaricus lx 149 137
Northern lesser galago Galago senegalensis 52 227 199
Somali lesser galago G. gallarum - 200 -
Southern lesser galago G. moholi 54 187 173
Spectacled bottom galago G. matschiei - 207 212
Southern needle-clawed galago Euoticus elegantulus 64 - 300
Northern needle-clawed galago Due east. pallidus - 182–210
Thick-tailed bushbaby Otolemur crassicaudatus 70 1190 1110
Small-scale-eared greater bushbaby O. garnetti 69 794 734

Otolemur, the greater galago, weighs approximately i kg and is found in eastern and southern Africa. Otolemur crassicaudatus, the thick-tailed greater galago, is the largest of the galagos. A slightly smaller species, O. garnettii, has a more than limited distribution on the declension of due east Africa. Thick-tailed galagos take big ears, a long tail, relatively long lower limbs, and an elongated calcaneus and navicular. These proportions of both the limbs and the ankle in Otolemur are less extreme than in other galagos. In both of these species of Otolemur, males are significantly heavier than females.

Like all galagos, greater galagos are nocturnal. They are institute in relatively low forests between 6 and 12 yard high and motion mainly by quadrupedal walking and running, and less oft by leaping. Their diet consists primarily of fruits and gums and varies considerably from season to season. In contrast, the diet of O. garnettii consists of fruit and animal prey with no gums.

Greater galagos are solitary foragers that live in a noyau social system with multiple males and females overlapping in range use. Females build foliage nests for their twin, or even triplet, offspring, and carry their infants in their mouth if they must move them.

At that place are several genera of smaller bushbabies (Nekaris and Bearder, 2011). The lesser bushbabies, genus Galago, are the virtually widespread, with four species. Galago senegalensis, the Senegal bushbaby, is the well-nigh widespread species, extending from Senegal in the w beyond key Africa to eastern Africa. Galago moholi, the Due south African lesser galago, has a wide distribution over much of southern Africa. Galago gallarum, the Somali galago, has more restricted distributions in eastern Africa, and G. matschiei, the spectacled galago, is restricted to Uganda. These bottom bushbabies inhabit a broad range of forests, woodlands, and vegetation thickets, but are commonly found in Acacia woodlands. They are all smaller than Otolemur, have relatively long legs and ankle basic, and are spectacular leapers that occupy the contrary extreme of the galagid locomotor spectrum from Otolemur. They are constitute in many forest levels on smaller supports and travel almost exclusively by leaping. Their nutrition is comprised mainly of insects, but glue is a major component in the dry season. During gum feeding, these minor galagos cling to the crude bark of acacia trees by grasping.

The best-studied species of the lesser bushbabies is Chiliad. moholi. In this species, individuals provender separately in large, individual domicile ranges, but they often group together in daytime sleeping nests. They are not particular most their selection of nest sites, frequently choosing tangles as well every bit holes in copse. Amid the adult males there appears to be a social authority hierarchy related to age and weight. Because of the harsh, unpredictable nature of their environs and loftier mortality rates, these primates seem to have a 'boom or bust' reproductive strategy, with females capable of having up to two litters of twins per year.

The dwarf galagos include eight named species, and several more populations remain to be described (Nekaris and Bearder, 2011). Two of the best known are Demidoff's galago, Galagoides demidoff (Fig. four.21), and Thomas' galago, M. thomasi. Dwarf galagos resemble Microcebus in many behavioral features (Charles-Dominique and Martin, 1970). Their range extends in a ring beyond key Africa from west to due east. Throughout this region, they are very mutual in dumbo vegetation of either the canopy of primary forests or the understory of secondary forests. They are less specialized leapers than either Galago senegalensis or Sciurocheirus alleni and move mainly by quadrupedal walking and running, with short leaps between branches. Their diet (Fig. 4.21) in western Africa is predominantly insects (lxx%), with lesser amounts of fruit (19%) and gums (10%). Their social construction is a noyau system with overlapping male person and female ranges, and daytime sleeping nests are shared by groups of females and occasional visiting males. They seem to take single births once a twelvemonth in some parts of their range, merely in other areas they frequently take twins.

Allen'southward bushbaby, or Allen's squirrel galago (Sciurocheirus alleni), is one of several squirrel galagos from Gabon, Cameroon and Bioko (Table four.7, Fig. four.21). It is a medium-sized galago from West Africa whose affinities have been subject to some debate. Sciurocheirus alleni moves by leaping between minor vertical supports in the understory and between these small trees and the ground. Its nutrition varies considerably beyond sites and also perhaps seasonally. In the primary forests of Gabon, Allen's bushbabies eat 25% animal matter, 75% fruit, much of which is from the ground, and some gums; merely in a secondary woods locality they eat a much higher proportion of insects. Individuals forage alone, and males have large habitation ranges overlapping the ranges of several females. Allen's bushbabies are much less prolific than Senegal bushbabies. In their relatively stable rainforest habitat, females give nascency to but a single infant per year.

The about specialized of the galagos is Euoticus, the needle-clawed galago (Fig. 4.21), with 2 species. These medium-size species resembles the cheirogaleid Phaner in having numerous morphological specializations, such as procumbent upper incisors, caniniform upper anterior premolars, and laterally compressed, clawlike nails related to its gum-eating habits. These galagos utilise all levels of the canopy and movement both quadrupedally and by leaping. They are particularly skilful at clinging to big trunks and branches, which are the source of their main food – gums. Almost of their foraging is solitary, and their social behavior is largely unknown.

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Development of the Primate Encephalon

Jon H. Kaas , in Progress in Encephalon Enquiry, 2012

Motor cortex

Motor cortex in galagos ( Fig. i) includes a number of areas that are likewise found in other primates (Wu et al., 2000). A primary motor area, M1, but rostral to areas 3a and 3b of somatosensory cortex, has been identified in all studied placental mammals, and thus has an ancient origin. In primates, M1 has a large region devoted to hand movements, and in some primates, M1 has distinct rostral and caudal divisions (Preuss et al., 1997). M1 is more specialized for movements of individual digits in macaque monkeys than it is in galagos, every bit M1 organization reflects types of use of the hand. Galagos and other primates likewise accept dorsal and ventral premotor areas, PMD and PMV, a supplementary motor area (SMA), and caudal and rostral cingulate motor areas (CMr and CMc). A dorsal premotor area has been found in rodents and tree shrews (Remple et al., 2007) that may correspond to either SMA or PMD of primates. PMV may have emerged with the first primates. Both PMD and PMV have functionally distinct subdivisions in macaque monkeys (Fujii et al., 2000; Geyer et al., 2000; Luppino et al., 1999), suggesting further evolution of premotor cortex. An anterior office of ventral premotor cortex that is involved with orofacial movements has been suggested to be a homologue of the much more extensive Broca'due south area of the left cognitive hemisphere in humans (Petrides et al., 2005). Finally, the frontal eye field (FEF) where electrical stimulation produces eye movements is an surface area that has been identified in galagos, new and one-time world monkeys, and humans. The eye movements are evoked via connections with the superior colliculus and brainstem motor centers, but galagos appear to differ from monkeys in having very few projections from the FEF to the superior colliculus. As cortex rostral to M1 has few if any projections to the superior colliculus in almost nonprimate mammals, the sparseness or lack of such a projection in galagos may reverberate the primitive condition.

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Primates

Barry Berkovitz , Peter Shellis , in The Teeth of Mammalian Vertebrates, 2018

Galagidae

There are over 20 species of bush babies or galagos. They are skilled leapers. Their diet consists of fruits, nectar, and insects. Galago senegalensis consumes institute gums, which are secreted past trees in response to insect damage and provide a source of saccharide (Bearder and Martin, 1980). The dental comb is used to scrape gum off the surface of the bawl (Bearder and Martin, 1980). Existence nocturnal, they accept very large eyes. Their dental formula is the same as that of the Lorisidae.

Allen'south bush infant (Galago alleni) (Fig. 9.11A and B) has slender, pointed upper incisors. Both upper and lower first premolars are caniniform. The second premolar is bicuspid and the tertiary quadritubercular. In the lower jaw, the second premolar is unicuspid and the third is quadritubercular. The upper molars are quadritubercular. The occlusal surface has 2 basins: 1 between the protocone, the paracone, and the metacone, and the other between the posterolingually placed hypocone and the protocone. The 2d basin is minor in the last molar. The lower beginning and second molars have iv cusps, while the 3rd molar is narrower buccolingually and has a fifth cusp posteriorly. The last premolar and all three molars possess a prominent crest running obliquely frontward from the hypoconid.

Figure ix.eleven. Allen'southward bush babe (Galago alleni). (A) Lateral view of skull. Original image width   =   v.eight   cm. (B) Occlusal view of dentition. Original prototype width   =   6.seven   cm.

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The Nervous Systems of Early Mammals and Their Evolution

1000. Zilles , N. Palomero-Gallagher , in Evolution of Nervous Systems (2nd Edition), 2017

2.12.3.4 Galago

The hateful M2 receptor density of V1 in the prosimian galago cortex clearly separates this area from V2 as found in the other primate brains. The typical bimodal distribution of the maxima in receptor density separated by the Gennari stripe is also found in galago (encounter asterisks in Fig. 7). Also identical with the situation in homo and macaque brains is the distinct occurrence of nicotinic α4β2 receptors in layer IVc of V1 (see asterisk in Fig. seven). The AMPA, kainate, mGluR2/3, Mone, Chiliad3, α1, α2, 5-HT1A, 5-HT2, and D1 receptors bespeak just minor differences between V1 and V2 (Table 2; too run across Takahata et al., 2012). Interestingly, the very high α2 receptor density in the layers to a higher place the Gennari stripe of homo, macaque, and marmoset V1 is reduced to a very pocket-sized stripe of intermediate to loftier density resembling layer IVc in galago (thin pointer in Fig. 7). The GABAA and GABAB receptors as well as the NMDA receptor do not differ significantly in mean density or their laminar distribution pattern betwixt both areas (Tabular array two).

As described for the other primate brains, the G2 receptor reaches higher densities in S1 and A1 of the galago brain than in whatever other bordering cortical area (Fig. 7). The α4βii receptor is also an excellent marking for S1 and A1 by its very high density in layer IV, which exceeds the concentration of this receptor in the neighboring areas (Fig. seven). However, the border of S1 to the secondary somatosensory cortex S2 is non revealed by this nicotinic receptor (Table iii). The kainate and 5-HT1A receptors do non show this border either, merely demarcate A1 (Table iii). The concentrations of AMPA, mGluR2/three, GABAA, and GABAB receptors vary slightly in unmarried layers of S1 and A1 compared to the neighboring areas. The α1 receptor density does non differ between A1 and the secondary auditory cortex A2, but between S1 and S2. No differences were found for S1 and A1 compared to the surrounding cortical regions in densities of NMDA, M1, G3, αtwo, or Done receptors (Tabular array 3).

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Comparative Anatomy of Primates

Rui Diogo , ... Adam Hartstone-Rose , in Basics in Human Development, 2015

The Strepsirrhine Skeleton

In that location is almost equally much skeletal diversity among the extant galagos, lemurs, and lorises (mod members of the suborder Strepsirrhini; see Figure one) as at that place is in the whole society. If you include a consideration of the recently extinct lemurs, then this suborder certainly has had more variation in size, shape, posture, and locomotion than all of the living anthropoids combined. This group ranges in size from the diminutive mouse lemurs (Microcebus)—as modest every bit 30   g, the smallest of all living primates—to the ∼6   kg indri (Indri). While this largest of living lemurs is not particularly impressive in size relative to hominoids and some monkeys, all of the recently extinct lemurs were larger than their surviving relatives. The largest of these, Archaeoindris, may have been virtually 200   kg—larger than nearly of the living hominoids. As impressive equally they are in size, most of the recently extinct lemurs were even more interesting in their locomotor adaptations, with several species (Archaeolemur and Hadropithecus) converging on a more than terrestrial monkey-like form, other giant forms displaying a bizarre form of arboreal morphology that included exceptionally long and curved digits and other skeletal elements that have given them the moniker the "koala lemurs" (Megaladipis). Every bit strange every bit this taxon was, another extinct lineage (including Babakotia and Paleopropithecus) had distinct adaptations for underbranch suspension that has given them the name "sloth lemurs" (Mittermeier et al., 2006).

Effigy one. Scheme showing the main primate clades and their phylogenetic relationships. (See color plate section).

The living strepsirrhines mostly have more than typical body forms that can generally exist divided into four categories: (1) relatively small slow bodies (e.thousand., those of the deadening loris, Nycticebus, and dwarf lemurs, Cheirogaleus) that may represent the torso program of the most primitive bequeathed primate; (ii) small bodies built for quick movement (e.chiliad., the bush babies, Galago, and mouse lemurs, Microcebus); (3) arboreal quadrupeds (eastward.g., ringtail lemurs, Lemur, and the "true" lemurs, Eulemur)—what nigh may think of equally a typical lemur form; and (4) the "vertical clinging and leaping" lemurs (eastward.thou., the indri, Indri, and sifakas, Propithecus). Almost all of the living strepsirrhines autumn more or less within one of these categories with one amazing exception: the yes-yeah (Daubentonia). This truly unique brute has a suite of morphology unlike whatever other primate: every bit the largest of all nocturnal primates, it has huge ears that information technology uses in combination with uncommonly long fingers to echolocate wood-boring insects in a feeding method known as "tap foraging." In one case it locates an airspace beneath the surface of the forest, it uses its always-growing incisors (also unique amongst primates and almost all other mammalian orders) to gouge into those cavities, and then it inserts its long, thin, and highly flexible middle finger into the pigsty to probe and fish out grubs. This, along with its impressive long and bushy tail, vestigial premolars and molars, inguinal mammaries (breast located in the groin) and highly cryptic behavior, clearly makes this sole member of its own family a truly mysterious primate (Mittermeier et al., 2006). It is arguably ane of the strangest of all mammals.

Exceptions bated, strepsirrhines have a adequately typical primate skeleton: substantial clavicles and opposable, powerful big toes. All accept fairly large eyes surrounded by "postorbital bars"—bony struts connecting the frontal os to the zygomatic arch to either back up or protect the relatively convergent eyes. Most strepsirrhines accept long tails and typical primate molars and premolars (albeit relatively archaic). Near besides take "tooth combs"—a reorganization of the lower anterior dentition (incisors and canines) in which these teeth are long and thin and aligned equally an apparatus used for grooming. They also have a "grooming" or "toilet" claw—a long precipitous claw generally found on the second toe. The truly defining characteristic of the group—the wet "rhinarium," essentially a continuity betwixt the upper lip and nose that allows improved utilize of the vomeronasal organ—is a predominantly soft-tissue feature. However, the strepsirrhine emphasis on olfaction does highly influence the shape of the skull: more than any of the other primates, lemurs take fairly elongated rostra. This anatomy allows for greater olfaction—a more of import sense in this group than primates such as hominoids (equally exemplified past the nearly ubiquitous scent glands used by these animals)—and makes the skull longer than almost all other primates (Colina, 1953; Fleagle, 1999).

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Prosimians

Cathy Five. Williams , in Fowler'south Zoo and Wild Fauna Medicine, Volume viii, 2015

Biology

Prosimian primates are composed of lemurs, lorises, pottos, and galagos. The classification of primates remains somewhat controversial, and taxonomic structure continues to exist revised as the increasing corporeality of genetic data is reconciled with earlier methods of classifications based on morphology and fossil records. Most authorities now follow a systematic arrangement in which the primates are divided into ii suborders: (1) Strepsirhini (i.e., the molar combed primates), and (ii) Haplorhini, which includes the tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans. The Strepsirhine group is further divided into two infraorders: Lorisiformes and Lemuriformes. The infraorder Lorisiformes includes all the extant African and Asian species of lorises, pottos, and galagos, which are represented by nine genera and eighteen species of modest-bodied, nocturnal primates. 28 The infraorder Lemuriformes is composed of 5 families endemic to Madagascar: (1) Lemuridae (bamboo lemurs, band-tailed lemurs, true lemurs, and ruffed lemurs), (ii) Indriidae (indri, sifakas, and woolly lemurs), (3) Cheirogaleidae (mouse lemurs, dwarf lemurs, and fork-marked lemurs), (4) Lepilemuridae (sportive lemurs), and (5) Daubentoniidae (aye-aye).

Lemurs are found in a wide range of ecologic niches in Republic of madagascar, including the low to high altitude tropical pelting forests on the east coast, the dry out deciduous forests of the west, and the spiny deserts of the s. Lorises are native to Southeast Asia and the tropical forests of Republic of india and Sri Lanka, and galagos (bush babies) and pottos are distributed throughout Africa south of the Sahara. 28

Over the last 2000 years, at least 17 species of lemurs have become extinct, and the ranges of about extant species accept decreased dramatically, largely because of man activity. All prosimian species are threatened to various degrees in the wild. All members of the family unit Lemuridae besides as Nycticebus sp. (slow lorises) are listed in CITES Appendix I by the International Matrimony for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Galagos, pottos, and the slender loris (Loris tardigradis) are listed in CITES Appendix 2. 18 Habitat destruction is the largest threat; notwithstanding, hunting for bush meat and capture for auction in the pet merchandise also contribute to their declining numbers.

Many species are not represented in captivity or are present in only very small-scale numbers. Of the lemur species displayed in zoos, Lemur catta (ring-tailed lemur) are near numerous followed by Varecia (ruffed lemurs) and Eulemur (true lemurs or black and dark-brown lemurs). Increasingly, Propithecus (sifaka) and Daubentoina (aye-aye) are establish on display in N American and European zoos as ameliorate husbandry and feeding programs for these species are developed. Galagos, although non present in zoos in big numbers, are often used in research settings.

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Placentation and Early Primate Development

Friderun Ankel-Simons , in Primate Beefcake (Third Edition), 2007

LEMURIDAE AND LORISIDAE

The placenta of Lemuridae and Lorisidae is adeciduate, diffuse, and epitheliochorial. However, Galago demidovii—the dwarf galago—was studied by the French scholar Gérard (1932), who describes the placenta every bit having a well-defined region of the endotheliochorial type within an overall epitheliochorial placenta. Thus in the pregnant G. demidovii uterus all half dozen tissue layers are present overall, except for a small and divers region where the embryo's chorion epithel is directly side by side to the outside of the maternal claret vessels. This discovery has been widely accepted by subsequent authors but has never been reconfirmed, presumably considering of a lack of fabric. Starck (1956), withal, believes that Gérard's observations volition someday be proven correct, and that therefore it is of interest to keep in heed that the dwarf galago may have an area of higher functional interchange inside a placenta that is otherwise of lemuroid grapheme.

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Quantitative and Qualitative Microscopy

Edward A. Lachica , Vivien A. Casagrande , in Methods in Neurosciences, 1990

In Vivo Injection Method

Injection

We accept used an in vivo HRP method to visualize axons in babe and adult galagos and developed tree shrews. The in vivo method produces better results in adult animals than the in vitro method, and is essential for accurate placement of small injections. We take used the in vivo method to fill up geniculocortical axons and retinogeniculate axons. In the latter case, we first record from the LGN and utilize physiological criteria to decide the almost appropriate location for injections. Nosotros practice not record through the HRP pipette (although this tin can be done) because of HRP leakage. Instead, the recording pipette is replaced with an HRP-filled pipette prior to injection.

The following basic equipment is needed: a pipette puller (Kopf Instruments, Tajunga, CA), a stereotaxic frame and electrode carrier (Kopf Instruments), a microammeter capable of recording currents of 1–10 μA (special-ordered from any hardware or electronics store), and a stimulator (Grass Instruments, Quincy, MA, model #S44).

Prior to injection, pipettes are pulled from thick-walled capillary glass (A-M Systems, Inc. Everett, WA, #6020); tips are broken dorsum to an internal bore of 40–60 μm. The pipette is back-filled with 10–xx% HRP dissolved in either saline or 0.ane 1000 phosphate buffer. Any air bubbles must be removed or electric current will non flow. A fine human hair may be used to extract air bubbling that are trapped in the shank of the pipette. The pipette should be loaded immediately earlier utilise to avoid bottleneck the tip with drying HRP. Axons can be filled successfully by passing v–7 μA pulses of positive current (1–2 sec duration, l% duty bike) for at least 45 min. A unmarried well-placed injection can produce up to 50 well-filled axons. Nevertheless, it is wise to place more than than one injection if time, or space, permits. This is especially important if regional differences in axon morphology are suspected to be. Larger injections tin can be produced by adding one% (five/five) DMSO to the HRP solution. Alternatively, the injection can be express in size with ane% (due west/v) poly(L-ornithine hydrobromide) (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) in the HRP solution.

Survival and Perfusion

For most axon arbors less than 24 hr is required for survival. In fact, a survival fourth dimension of 12 60 minutes was found to exist adequate for filling geniculocortical axon arbors in adult galagos ( viii). Long survival times should exist avoided since the damaged axons will brainstorm to undergo degeneration during the survival period.

Following the survival period the animal should exist securely anesthetized (we prefer sodium pentobarbital). In order to open claret vessels information technology helps to inject i ml/kg body weight 1% (w/five) Xylocaine (i.m.), 1 ml/kg heparin sulfate (i.thousand.), and 5 ml/kg ane% (w/five) sodium nitrite (i.p.) x–15 min before the perfusion. One time the heart is exposed, inject some other one ml/kg heparin (k units/ml) into the left ventricle. Rinse with oxygenated lactated Ringer's solution through the left ventricle with the right atrium cut using a syringe pump (Sage, Cambridge, MA, model 341B, for minor animals) or a hanging bottle for larger animals. A consummate rinse is critical since claret vessels filled with red blood cells, which react strongly for diaminobenzidine (DAB), may hinder reconstruction. Fix with 500–1500 ml of 2.five% glutaraldehyde and 2.5% formaldehyde in 0.one Thousand phosphate buffer followed by 100–500 ml of the same fixative containing 10% sucrose (westward/v).

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The Taxonomy of Primates in the Laboratory Context

Groves Colin , in The Laboratory Primate, 2005

Galago and Otolemur

The iv species of Galagidae (bushbabies) that are sometimes kept in laboratories are:

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Galago senegalensis (Senegal Bushbaby). They are really establish all over western, northeastern and southeastern Africa, are grey with yellow limbs, and dark eye-rings with a white stripe betwixt them. They are active and brand long hops. Gestation is 142 days and they usually have single births.

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Galago moholi (Moholi Bushbaby), from southeastern and southern Africa, are more than buffy with larger ears and more prominent face pattern. They are agile and make long hops. Gestation is 125 days and they nearly always give nativity to twins.

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Otolemur crassicaudatus (Brown Greater Galago), from southeastern Africa. They are very large, bushy-tailed, big-eared and dark-brown with a pale face up. They exercise not hop. Gestation is 135 days and they usually bear twins or triplets.

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Otolemur garnettii (Northern Greater Galago), from eastern Africa, is similar to O.crassicaudatus merely is rather smaller, shorter-eared, more greyish-toned and has a face that is not pale. Information technology sometimes hops. Gestation is 130 days; unremarkably producing single births.

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