Hand-Rearing Method for Infant Marmosets

The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is a small and highly social New World monkey with high reproduction rates, which has been proven to be a compelling non-human primate model for biomedical and neuroscience research. Some females give birth to triplets; however, the parents cannot raise all o...

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Published inJournal of visualized experiments no. 196
Main Authors Sun, Hao, Li, Rui, Lin, Yingxu, Cao, Xinyuan, Fan, Lingzhu, Sun, Guanglong, Xie, Min, Zhu, Lin, Yu, Chencen, Cai, Ruolan, Lyu, Chenfei, Wang, Xiaohui, Zhang, Yuanqing, Bai, Siyi, Qi, Runze, Tang, Binliang, Jia, Guoqiang, Li, Xinjian, Gao, Lixia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 09.06.2023
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Animals
Callithrix
Female
Food
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Summary:The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is a small and highly social New World monkey with high reproduction rates, which has been proven to be a compelling non-human primate model for biomedical and neuroscience research. Some females give birth to triplets; however, the parents cannot raise all of them. To save these infants, we have developed a hand-rearing method for raising newborn marmosets. In this protocol, we describe the formula of the food, the time for feeding, the configuration of the temperature and humidity, as well as the adaptation of the hand-reared infants to the colony environment. This hand-rearing method significantly increases the survival rate of marmoset infants (without hand-rearing: 45%; with hand-rearing: 86%) and provides the opportunity to study the development of marmoset infants with similar genetic backgrounds raised in different postnatal environments. As the method is practical and easy to use, we anticipate that it could also be applied to other labs working with common marmosets.
ISSN:1940-087X
DOI:10.3791/65296