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Diet, Dentition, and Jaw Shape in Aotus
Early research hypothesized that Aotus was a member of a specialized guild of hard-fruit and seed-eating “sclerocarpic harvesters” based largely on...
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Aotus nancymaae model predicts human immune response to the placental malaria vaccine candidate VAR2CSA
Placental malaria vaccines (PMVs) are being developed to prevent severe sequelae of placental malaria (PM) in pregnant women and their offspring. The...
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A Reference Genome Assembly and Initial Polymorphism Data for Aotus nancymaae
Owl monkeys (genus Aotus) constitute a remarkable radiation of platyrrhine primates that exhibit many lineage-specific adaptations and evolutionary...
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Phylogenetics and Biogeography of Owl Monkeys (Aotus): The Molecular Evidence
Despite close to three decades of genetic studies that have tried to resolve the precise phylogenetic position of owl monkeys (genus Aotus) within...
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The Ethnoprimatology of Owl Monkeys (Aotus spp.): From Past to Present
Ethnoprimatological information about owl monkeys is relatively scant compared to other Neotropical primates. Nocturnality is the characteristic that...
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Aotus: A Model to Synthesize Studies of Captive and Wild Primates
While often placed in opposition to one another, integrating data from studies of captive and non-captive nonhuman primates enhances our...
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Flexibility in the Diet and Feeding Ecology of Nocturnal and Cathemeral Aotus
Current evidence indicates that owl monkeys (Aotus spp.) have species-rich, flexible diets. They can switch resources seasonally, consume ephemeral...
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Molecular data aids pinworm diagnosis in night monkeys (Aotus spp., Primates: Aotidae) with the resurrection of a Trypanoxyuris species (Nematoda: Oxyuridae)
Neotropical primates (Platyrrhines) are commonly parasitized by pinworm nematodes of the genus Trypanoxyuris Vevers, 1923. The taxonomic identity of Trypanoxyuris...
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Visual System of the Only Nocturnal Anthropoid, Aotus: The Owl Monkey
Diurnal haplorhines exhibit derived traits for high-acuity photopic vision, unique across mammals, and many other vertebrates. Yet, sometime in the...
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Why Owl Monkeys Are Pitheciids: Morphology, Adaptations, and the Evolutionary History of the Aotus Lineage
Phylogeny reconstruction is an estimation of genealogical history, not an exact rendering of it, and no method of phylogeny reconstruction is...
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Field Surveys and Conservation Status of the Panamanian Owl Monkey (Aotus zonalis)
The Panamanian owl monkey (Aotus zonalis) is found from northern Coclé to Darién provinces in Panama, south through the Pacific lowlands of the Chocó...
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Threats and Conservation of Owl Monkeys (Aotus spp.) in the Andes
The montane forests of the Andes extend from northern Colombia, south through Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, and include parts of the distributions of...
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Conservation Status of the Nancy Ma’s Owl Monkey (Aotus nancymaae, Hershkovitz, 1983) on the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon Border
This chapter presents an overview of the general characteristics of the Nancy Ma’s owl monkey (Aotus nancymaae) and a case study where we explore the...
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Activity Patterns, Diet and Home Range of Night Monkeys (Aotus griseimembra and Aotus lemurinus) in Tropical Lowland and Mountain Forests of Central Colombia
Most primates live in lowland ecosystems; however, some species have been particularly successful at colonizing higher altitudes, such as night...
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What Owl Monkeys (Aotus spp.) Tell Us About the Dynamics Between Thermo-Energetics and Organismal Biology
Owl monkeys are found in a variety of ecosystems ranging from the highlands of Panama and Colombia, to the Amazon, and to the South American Chaco....
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Validation of a Dehydroepiandrosterone-Sulfate Assay in Three Platyrrhine Primates (Alouatta caraya, Aotus azarae infulatus, and Sapajus apella)
The hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulfate ester (DHEAS) are the most abundant circulating steroids in human and some nonhuman...
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Using a Phylogenetic Framework to Assess the Role of Fruit Size in Food Selection by the Andean Night Monkey (Aotus lemurinus)
The study of diet and food selection is foundational to understanding how primates interact with their environment. Due to the potential evolutionary...
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Species distribution and conservation assessment of the black-headed night monkey (Aotus nigriceps): a species of Least Concern that faces widespread anthropogenic threats
Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have been steadily increasing since 2007. Recent government policy, the projected growth of agriculture,...
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Morphology, Systematics, and Taxonomy of Owl Monkeys
Owl monkeys, genus Aotus, are distributed from Panama to the northeast of Argentina and from the highlands of the Andes to the Atlantic coast. They...
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Activity budget, home range and diet of the Colombian night monkey (Aotus lemurinus) in peri-urban forest fragments
Forest fragmentation and deforestation are major threats to primates at a global scale. The survival of primates in forest fragments largely depends...
