Publications

of monkeys and men: vervets and the genetics of human-like behaviors.		1997	9326311
a primate model for alzheimer's disease: investigation of the apolipoprotein e profile of the vervet monkey of st. kitts.	the apolipoprotein e4 allele has been previously associated with late onset alzheimer's disease (ad). the major neuropathology of ad, senile (amyloid) plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles, has been observed in the vervet monkey (chlorocebus aethiops). to further assess the suitability of the vervet as a model for ad, we undertook to determine the sequence of the vervet apoe exon 4 and to genotype an unrelated group of 30 aged animals raging from 15 to 28 years of age. all 30 animals were homozyg ...	2007	17373728
prevalence of hypermucoid klebsiella pneumoniae among wild-caught and captive vervet monkeys (chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) on the island of st. kitts.	invasive, hypermucoid klebsiella pneumoniae causes severe abscess formation in humans and in certain species of nonhuman primates. we conducted a survey of captive and wild-caught african green monkeys, or vervets (chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus), on the caribbean island of st. kitts to assess their carriage rate of klebsiella spp. forty percent of rectal swabs from captive monkeys were positive for k. pneumoniae, and 20% of wild-caught animals were positive. two wild-caught monkeys (4%) were posi ...	2010	20688708
single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the tnf gene are associated with obesity-related phenotypes in vervet monkeys.	tumor necrosis factor (tnf) promoter single-nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) have been extensively characterized in humans, with numerous reports of associations with obesity-related phenotypes as well an array of infectious, immune-mediated, and inflammatory disease phenotypes. controlling for the multitude of environmental risk factors in human studies has been a major confounder of efforts to elucidate the role and relative contribution of tnf promoter snps. as part of an ongoing initiative to ...	2011	21331060
a comparison of adult body size between captive and wild vervet monkeys (chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) on the island of st. kitts.	weight and 34 morphological measurements were obtained from 103 vervet monkeys living either in the wild or in captive colonies derived from the wild populations on the island of st. kitts in the eastern caribbean. all measures were taken during the same week, eliminating bias that might result from changing seasonal environmental conditions. vervets on st. kitts are all descended from a small number of individuals brought to the island approximately 400 years ago from west africa, thus eliminat ...	2016	26801341
high leptospira seroprevalence in captive and wild-caught vervet monkeys ( chlorocebus sabeus) on the caribbean island of saint kitts.	leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease of global importance. very little information is available on leptospira infection in nonhuman primates. we report herein a high seroprevalence (49.4%; 95% confidence interval: 41.6-57.2%) to leptospira serovars in vervet monkeys ( chlorocebus sabeus) on the caribbean island of saint kitts. monkeys bred in captivity ( n = 81) had a significantly higher seroprevalence compared to wild-caught monkeys ( n = 81; p < 0.05). seroprevalence to serovar bataviae was si ...	2017	28782434