关键词: 灵长类实验动物, 现状与未来

Abstract: China is one of the few countries which has the richest primate resources in the world. In the now existed 200 primates on the earth, China owns 4 families, 7 genus, 23 species and 39 subspecies. Yunnan province boasts of the richest primate resources in China and 15 species are distributed within it. Concurrently, Yunnan is the earliest province in China which dedicated in primate researches and undertook a large amount of work.\;As the most widely and enormously used laboratory animal models in life science researches, 6 subspecies of Macaca Mulatta are distributed in more than 20 provinces in our country. The diversities among the macaca mulatta subspecies and geographical distribution of Macaca mulatta groups in ecologies, behaviors, genetics, physiology and medicines provide adequate resources for specific, sensitive and repeatable laboratory primate researches. The thesis focus on how to protect primate resources and how to harness the primate resources to our purpose, illustrating the importance and necessities to establish breeding groups of the Macaca Mulatta subspecies.

Key words: Laboratory primates, Current status and future