AnAge entry for Callithrix jacchus
Classification (HAGRID: 02683)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Callitrichidae
Genus: Callithrix
- Species
- Callithrix jacchus
- Common name
- White-tufted-ear marmoset
- Synonyms
- Jacchus albicollis, Hapale communis, Hapale leucotis, Jacchus vulgaris, Simia jacchus moschatus, Jacchus vulgaris rufus, Simia jacchus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 22.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
These animals appear to be amongst the fastest ageing primates [0463]. Females have been known to die of breast cancer in their second decade of life [0935]. One male specimen lived 22.8 years in captivity [0671]. Average lifespan in captivity has been reported to be around 10-12 years [0865].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 477 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 382 days
- Gestation
- 144 days
- Weaning
- 62 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 169 days
- Weight at birth
- 26.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- 86.67 g
- Adult weight
- 255.2 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0172 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 200%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.8480 W
- Body mass
- 190.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004463 W/g
References
- [1244] Wu et al. (2016), Characterization of mammary epithelial stem/progenitor cells and their changes with aging in common marmosets (PubMed)
- [1236] Didier et al. (2016), Contributions of Nonhuman Primates to Research on Aging (PubMed)
- [1219] Ash and Buchanan-Smith (2014), Long-term data on reproductive output and longevity in captive female common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) (PubMed)
- [0865] Nishijima et al. (2012), Life span of common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) at CLEA Japan breeding colony (PubMed)
- [1103] Lazic (2012), Modeling hippocampal neurogenesis across the lifespan in seven species (PubMed)
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0860] Smucny et al. (2004), Reproductive output, maternal age, and survivorship in captive common marmoset females (Callithrix jacchus) (PubMed)
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0186] Abbott et al. (2003), Aspects of common marmoset basic biology and life history important for biomedical research (PubMed)
- [0187] Wu et al. (2003), Selective age-related loss of calbindin-D28k from basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) (PubMed)
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0188] Berkovitz and Pacy (2000), Age changes in the cells of the intra-articular disc of the temporomandibular joints of rats and marmosets (PubMed)
- [0189] Kapahi et al. (1999), Positive correlation between mammalian life span and cellular resistance to stress (PubMed)
- [0190] Harada et al. (1999), Age-related changes in the brainstem auditory evoked potentials of the marmoset (PubMed)
- [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
- [0935] Box and Hubrecht (1987), Long-term data on the reproduction and maintenance of a colony of common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus jacchus) 1972-1983 (PubMed)
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0191] O'Neill and Levy (1986), Lymphocyte subsets in the young and aging marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) (PubMed)
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
- [0406] Primate Aging Database (PAD)
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- Taxonomy ID 9483
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