Does the milk of callitrichid monkeys differ from that of larger anthropoids?

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 117-127

  Power, Michael L ^a   Oftedal, Olav T ^a   Tardif, Suzette D ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SW Regional Primate Research Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILK; PRIMATE;

ANTHROPOIDEA; CALLITHRIX; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; CALLITHRIX PYGMAEA; CALLITRICHIDAE; CEBIDAE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; LEONTOPITHECUS ROSALIA; MARMOSETS; PANTHERA LEO; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR;

FAT; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CALORIC INTAKE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; LACTATION; MARMOSET; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CALLITRICHINAE; ENERGY INTAKE; FATS; FEMALE; LACTATION; MILK; PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036483870     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.1068     Document Type: Article

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