Experimental Animals
Online ISSN : 1881-7122
Print ISSN : 0007-5124
Morphometrical Study of Physical Growth in Infant Cynomolgus Monkeys Using Multivariate Analysis
Toshiyuki SHIMIZUTakahiro ONOTakashi YOSHIDAFumiaki CHONobuo GOTO
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1988 Volume 37 Issue 2 Pages 145-151

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We describe the relative growth in infant cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) . The multivariate analyses using the principal component analysis and multivariate allometric analysis were applied to biometrical data of laboratory-bred cynomolgus monkeys aged from birth to 12 weeks. All the animals had been bred and reared under uniform environmental conditions at Tsukuba Primate Center for Medical Science, N. I. H., Japan. As the result of the principal component analysis, the cumulative contribution ratio of the 1st and 2nd principal components (PC1 and PC2) accounted for 88.2% and 85.7% in males and females, respectively. This indicates that the morphologic traits (15 traits) grow normally in size, but the analysis did not detect any differences in growth rate among the traits. So, the multivariate allometric analysis was applied to the same data. The traits concerning the face and truck showed relatively high growth rates compared to head breadth, whereas the limbs and arms grew slowly.

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