AnAge entry for Saguinus oedipus
Classification (HAGRID: 02701)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Callitrichidae
Genus: Saguinus
- Species
- Saguinus oedipus
- Common name
- Cotton-top tamarin
- Synonyms
- Seniocebus meticulous, Oedipus titi
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 26.2 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
One 26.2 year old animal was still alive in captivity [0671]. Amyloid-beta protein plaque deposits typical of Alzheimer's disease, but not neurofibrillary tangles, were observed in the brains of animals over 12 years of age, suggesting these animals may develop early Alzheimer's disease pathology [0824].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 548 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 550 days
- Gestation
- 178 days
- Weaning
- 52 days
- Litter size
- 1.9 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 244 days
- Weight at birth
- 39.36 g
- Weight at weaning
- 105 g
- Adult weight
- 445.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0102 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 211%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0824] Lemere et al. (2008), Cerebral amyloid-Beta protein accumulation with aging in cotton-top tamarins: a model of early Alzheimer's disease? (PubMed)
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0463] Austad (1997), Small nonhuman primates as potential models of human aging (PubMed)
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0321] Letcher (1992), Survey of Saguinus mortality in a zoo colony (PubMed)
- [0322] Tardif and Ziegler (1992), Features of female reproductive senescence in tamarins (Saguinus spp.), a New World primate (PubMed)
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
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- ITIS 572933
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- Taxonomy ID 9490
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