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Genus Saimiri

Known as: Monkey, Squirrel, Common Squirrel Monkey, South American Squirrel Monkey 
A small diurnal primate with nails instead of claws, the Saimiri sciureus has close-cropped fur that is olive at the shoulders tending toward orange… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Effects of food ecology on social play: a laboratory simulation.
A laboratory group of 8 squirrel monkeys was exposed to two experimental conditions in which food was made moderately and… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Effectiveness of six species of rodents as dispersers of singleleaf piñon pine (Pinus monophylla)
The effectiveness of six species of rodents as dispersers of singleleaf piñon pine (Pinus monophylla) was investigated in field… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
KAPOSI’S SARCOMA–ASSOCIATED HERPESVIRUS-LIKE DNA SEQUENCES IN AIDS-RELATED BODY-CAVITY–BASED LYMPHOMAS
Background. DNA fragments that appeared to belong to an unidentified human herpesvirus were recently found in more than 90… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Herpesvirus Saimiri encodes a new cytokine, IL-17, which binds to a novel cytokine receptor.
Herpesvirus Saimiri gene 13 (HVS13) exhibits 57% identity with the predicted sequence of a T cell-derived molecule termed CTLA8… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Contrasting responses to intruders and to involuntary separation by monogamous and polygynous New World monkeys
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Regional segregation of neurons responding to quickly adapting, slowly adapting, deep and pacinian receptors within thalamic ventroposterior lateral and ventroposterior inferior nuclei in the…
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Interplexiform cells of the mammalian retina and their comparison with catecholamine-containing retinal cells
Retinal interplexiform cells have processes that branch within both the inner and outer plexiform layers. Their morphology is… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Phospholipids and acyl groups of synaptosomal and myelin membranes isolated from the cerebral cortex of squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus).
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Transorbital Approach to the Middle Cerebral Artery of the Squirrel Monkey: A Technique for Experimental Cerebral Infarction Applicable to Ultrastructural Studies
An appropriate surgical technique for the production of cerebral infarction must fulfill, among others, the following criteria in… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
The alk-1-enyl group content of mammalian myelin phosphoglycerides by quantitative two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography.
Myelin phospholipids have been examined by a separation-reaction-separation procedure for two-dimensional thin-layer… 
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