Abstract
Tupaia (the tree shrew), a member of the family Tupaiidae, is regarded as one of the most primitive prosimians bridging the gap between insectivores and primates (1,2). The phylogenetic placement of the Tupaia has led to much interesting discussion (3–5),especially after recently published reports (6–9), on the first discoveries of fossil tree shrews of the eocene and miocene periods. Our aim was to test animals suitable for laboratory experiments in medicine and biology which are more closely related to primates than to rodents. From this point of view several laboratories are engaged in studying Tupaia in different fields of science. For the past four years, we have been studying tumor induction in Tupaia by means of chemicals, radiation and viruses. A number of herpesviruses have been isolated from different animal species including subprimates and primates (10–12), as well as from a malignant lymphoma of owl monkeys (13), a spontaneous myelomonocytic leukemia of orangutan (14), Burkitt’s lymphoma (15), and nasopharyngial carcinomas of man (16).
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Darai, G., Flügel, R.M., Matz, B., Delius, H. (1981). DNA of Tupaia Herpesviruses. In: Becker, Y. (eds) Herpesvirus DNA. Developments in Molecular Virology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6897-5_18
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