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ABO blood groups in natural populations of callitrichidae (Platyrrhini, Primates)

Rossineide Martins da Rocha; Maria Lúcia Harada-Hamel; Horacio Schneider

Departamento de Genética, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Campus Universitário do Guamá, 66059 Belém, Pará, Brasil. Send correspondence to M.L.H.-H.

ABSTRACT

Blood and saliva samples were collected from 88 Saguinus fuscicollis weddelli and 47 Callithrix emiliae specimens captured along the banks of the Jamari river in Rondônia and from 35 Callithrix jacchus jacchus specimens captured in the State of Rio Grande do Norte. Their saliva was tested for the presence of ABH substances by the standard hemagglutination inhibition method. The three species were found to be monomorphic for the ABO system, all belonging to the A blood group. These results are similar to those obtained in most previous studies conducted on the family Callitrichidae.
When plasma samples were tested for the presence of natural ABO system agglutinins discrepancies between the saliva and serum phenotypes were observed in the three species.

Keywords: ABO blood; Callitrichidae; Primata.

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