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A cis-acting structural variation at the ZNF558 locus controls a gene regulatory network in human brain development

Didier Trono, Julien Paul André Pontis, Johan Jakobsson

The human forebrain has expanded in size and complexity compared to chimpanzees despite limited changes in protein-coding genes, suggesting that gene expression regulation is an important driver of brain evolution. Here, we identify a KRAB-ZFP transcriptio ...

2022

Adult human perception of distress in the cries of bonobo, chimpanzee, and human infants

Understanding the extent to which humans perceive the emotional state of animals has both theoretical and practical implications. While recent studies indicate that natural selection has led to some convergence of emotion coding among vertebrate species (i ...

Wiley2017

First quantitative survey delineates the distribution of chimpanzees in the Eastern Central African Republic

Stéphane Joost, Estelle Rochat

Vast, pristine ecosystems and their biodiversity are vanishing globally at frightening speed, but many large tracts of wilderness have not yet been systematically inventoried and important natural populations of threatened species remain poorly characteriz ...

Elsevier2017

The Impact of Linked Selection in Chimpanzees: A Comparative Study

Jeffrey David Jensen, Susanne Petra Pfeifer

Levels of nucleotide diversity vary greatly across the genomes of most species owing to multiple factors. These include variation in the underlying mutation rates, as well as the effects of both direct and linked selection. Fundamental to interpreting the ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2016

Big walkers over non-walking drivers: a walking-related metric for evaluating the success of transportation and public health policies

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie

From the point of view of public health and the environment, it can be argued that people who spontaneously walk great distances display a desirable behaviour, whereas those who drive a car without any walking in public space do not. A suggested metric can ...

2015

Wireless Neurosensor for Full-Spectrum Electrophysiology Recordings during Free Behavior

Grégoire Courtine, Hao Li, David Allenson Borton, Yao Lu, Jean François Pierre Laurens

Brain recordings in large animal models and humans typically rely on a tethered connection, which has restricted the spectrum of accessible experimental and clinical applications. To overcome this limitation, we have engineered a compact, lightweight, high ...

Cell Press2014

Triggering social interactions: chimpanzees respond to imitation by a humanoid robot and request responses from it

Aude Billard

Even the most rudimentary social cues may evoke affiliative responses in humans and promote socialcommunication and cohesion. The present work tested whether such cues of an agent may also promotecommunicative interactions in a nonhuman primate species, by ...

Springer Verlag2014

The Cognitive And Neural Time Course Of Empathy And Sympathy: An Electrical Neuroimaging Study On Self-Other Interaction

Olaf Blanke, Manuel Mercier

Although extensively investigated in sociocognitive neuroscience, empathy is difficult to study. The first difficulty originates in its multifaceted nature. According to the multidimensional model, empathy combines emotional, automatic (simulation), cognit ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Prototype Foamy Virus Bet Impairs the Dimerization and Cytosolic Solubility of Human APOBEC3G

Didier Trono

Cellular cytidine deaminases from the APOBEC3 family are potent restriction factors able to block the replication of retroviruses. Consequently, retroviruses have evolved a variety of different mechanisms to counteract inhibition by APOBEC3 proteins. Lenti ...

Amer Soc Microbiology2013

Variation in Transcription Factor Binding Among Humans

Differences in gene expression may play a major role in speciation and phenotypic diversity. We examined genome-wide differences in transcription factor (TF) binding in several humans and a single chimpanzee by using chromatin immunoprecipitation followed ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2010

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