Nancy Ma's night monkey [SEP] parent taxon
Nancy Ma's night monkey
Nancy Ma's night monkey ("Aotus nancymaae") is a night monkey species from South America. It is found in Brazil and Peru.
It is known in medical research as a model organism for studying the Duffy antigen.
. Additional cases of infection in Duffy antigen negative individuals have been reported from the Congo and Uganda. A study in Brazil of the protection against "P. vivax" offered by the lack of the Duffy antigen found no differential resistance to malaria vivax between Duffy antigen positive and negative individuals.
Nancy Ma's night monkey ("A. nancymaae") is used as an animal model of "P. vivax" infection. This species' erythrocytes possess the Duffy antigen and this antigen is used as the receptor for "P. vivax"