The common marmoset may be small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, but the diminutive stature of these monkeys belies their enormous significance in unraveling the intricate mysteries of human ...

At the heart of Japan’s national brain initiative, the Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain/MINDS) project, lies a diminutive monkey — the common marmoset.

Common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) are New World primates that are found within the coastal rainforests of North East (NE) Brazil. They are a multisensory species, relying on all their senses to ...

the supply of marmosets available for research, and gaps in guidance for their care and management. The New World primate, the common marmoset (Callithrix bacchus), is a research model of increasing ...

However, these inputs differ between independent breeders, such as great apes, and cooperative breeders, such as the common ...

Where the marmoset is a suitable model, its small size and high reproductive capacity have proved valuable assets, and the common marmoset is the only species of monkey used in the laboratory where ...

Callithrix jacchus, or common marmosets, like humans, are cooperatively breeding primates and share numerous life history traits with us. In a recent study published in Science Advances ...

The cute creatures are chatty, family oriented—and facing a shrinking habitat in the remote forests of Ecuador ...