Albinism: primates
Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck". Albinism is the absence of pigmentation in an organism and is a result of the expression of recessive alleles belonging to several different genes that disrupts melanin pigmentation (Owen & Skimmings, 1992)
Albinism in vertebrates is extremely rare. In humans, one person out 17 000 is affected by albinism worldwide (Witkop, 1979)
Several animal species have been observed to be affected by albinism, however, very few observations of albinistic non-human primates have been reported, even more so when considering only wild animals.
Indeed, only four cases of albinism in non-human primates have been reported so far: in toque macaques (Macaca sinica), bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata) (Fooden, 1979; Mahabal et al., 2012), spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) (Espinal et al., 2016), and most recently in chimpanzees (Leroux et al., submitted).
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