The following animals were used in this study: adult mice 2–12 months old, both male and female; adult treeshrews 7–18 months old, both male and female; adult mouse lemurs 2–3.5 years, both male and female; and adult macaques 3 and 7 years old, male. All procedures on mice, macaques, and treeshrews were conducted in accordance with the ethical guidelines of the National Institutes of Health and were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at the California Institute of Technology.
Mouse lemur experiments were in accordance with European animal welfare regulations and were reviewed by the local ethics committee (Comite d’éthique en expérimentation animale No. 68) in Brunoy, France, by the ethics committee of the University of Geneva, Switzerland and authorized by the French ‘Ministère de l’education nationale de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche’.
Mouse lemur experiments were in accordance with European animal welfare regulations and were reviewed by the local ethics committee (Comite d’éthique en expérimentation animale No. 68) in Brunoy, France, by the ethics committee of the University of Geneva, Switzerland and authorized by the French ‘Ministère de l’education nationale de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche’.
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