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crab-eating macaque

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Also known as: Macaca fascicularis, Macaca irus, long-tailed macaque

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cloning

In cloning: Early cloning experiments
…of two clones of the crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), the first primate clones using the SCNT process. (SCNT has been carried out with very limited success in humans, in part because of problems with human egg cells resulting from the mother’s age and environmental factors.)
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In macaque: Species
Crab-eating, or long-tailed, macaques (M. fascicularis) of Southeast Asia have whiskered brown faces; they live in forests along rivers, where they eat fruit and fish for crabs and other crustaceans. Rhesus monkeys (M. mulatta) are native to northern India, Myanmar (Burma), Southeast Asia, and eastern…
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