Heritability in the Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) Vertebral Column.

allometry axial skeleton genotype pedigree phenotype postcranial skeleton

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American journal of primatology

ISSN: 1098-2345

Titre abrégé: Am J Primatol

Pays: United States

ID NLM: 8108949

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Date de publication:
20 Oct 2024

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revised: 19 09 2024

received: 06 02 2024

accepted: 28 09 2024

medline: 21 10 2024

pubmed: 21 10 2024

entrez: 21 10 2024

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

The vertebral column plays a central role in primate locomotion and positional behavior. Understanding its evolution, therefore, has the potential to clarify evolutionary processes that have occurred in the primate lineage as well as the specific behaviors of extinct primates. However, to understand primate vertebral anatomy, it is important to determine how much of this anatomy is heritable and how much develops as a response to environmental factors during life. We estimated heritability for vertebral counts as well as typical cervical, thoracic, and lumbar elements from 210 individuals from the pedigreed Cayo Santiago Macaca mulatta skeletal collection. We found moderate heritability of vertebral counts (h La columna vertebral tiene un rol central en la locomoción y postura de los primates. Por ende, entender su evolución podría clarificar tanto los procesos evolutivos en los primates como los comportamientos específicos de los primates extintos. Sin embargo, para poder entender la evolución de la anatomía vertebral es importante determinar cuál es la contribución genética y cuál es la contribución del comportamiento en vida a la anatomía. Estimamos heritabilidad para el número de vertebras y para vertebras típicas cervicales, torácicas y lumbares de 210 individuos de la colección esquelética de Macaca mulatta de Cayo Santiago, la cual tiene información genealógica. Encontramos estimados moderados de heritabilidad para el número de vértebras (h

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La columna vertebral tiene un rol central en la locomoción y postura de los primates. Por ende, entender su evolución podría clarificar tanto los procesos evolutivos en los primates como los comportamientos específicos de los primates extintos. Sin embargo, para poder entender la evolución de la anatomía vertebral es importante determinar cuál es la contribución genética y cuál es la contribución del comportamiento en vida a la anatomía. Estimamos heritabilidad para el número de vertebras y para vertebras típicas cervicales, torácicas y lumbares de 210 individuos de la colección esquelética de Macaca mulatta de Cayo Santiago, la cual tiene información genealógica. Encontramos estimados moderados de heritabilidad para el número de vértebras (h

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DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23686 PMID: 39428679

pubmed: 39428679

doi: 10.1002/ajp.23686

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Organisme : This project was funded by a Catalyzer Grant from the Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust. The Caribbean Primate Research Center is funded by NIH ORIP #2-P40-OD012217.

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