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• n  of southern Asia; used in medical research

• A Ruckus over Rhesus .
• Hungry rhesus macaques roam the streets and even the subway, leap through treetops outside grand government buildings and scale fences around offices and private homes, searching .
• This week a study in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience shows that stage of life is also important in male and female rhesus monkeys.

• rhesus monkey
• Macaca mulatta

News & Articles

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• On this day: June 14
  The Continental Army is established, Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes as the American flag, Paris falls to the Nazis, and a rhesus monkey flies into space, all on this day.
  June 14, 2013 - Local 6 Orlando

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• Francis Collins in NEWS.com.au
  The sequencing of the rhesus macaque genome, combined with the availability of the chimp and human genomes, provide researchers with another powerful tool to advance our understanding of human biology in health and disease,said Francis...
• Sun Yat-sen in China Daily
  This study was to determine the mechanism leading to human short-sightedness based on the role of pax-6 in the causes of the same eye condition in infant rhesus monkeys,Ge Jian, director of Zhongshan Ophthalmic Centre under Guangzhou's Sun...