Okano, Erika Sasaki and their colleagues made international headlines when, in 2009, they developed the first transgenic marmosets, each engineered to carry a jellyfish gene that made the animals ...
The natural food of marmosets and tamarins consists of fruits, nectar, shoots and insects, young birds and bird's eggs. The animal protein intake is high. The short tusked marmosets (Callithrix and ...