The Distribution and Biogenic Origins of Zinc in the Mineralised Tooth Tissues of Modern and Fossil Hominoids: Implications for Life History, Diet and Taphonomy by M. Christopher Dean, Jan Garrevoet, Stijn J. M. Van Malderen, Frédéric Santos, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Robert Foley, Adeline Le Cabec

“…Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence (SXRF) was used to map zinc distribution across longitudinal polished ground sections of both deciduous and permanent modern human, great ape and fossil hominoid teeth. Higher resolution fluorescence intensity maps were used to image Zn in surface enamel, secondary dentine and cementum, and at the neonatal line (NNL) and enamel–dentine–junction (EDJ) in deciduous teeth. …”
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Get a Grip: Variation in Human Hand Grip Strength and Implications for Human Evolution by Ameline Bardo, Tracy L. Kivell, Katie Town, Georgina Donati, Haiko Ballieux, Cosmin Stamate, Trudi Edginton, Gillian S. Forrester

“…Although hand grip strength is critical to the daily lives of humans and our arboreal great ape relatives, the human hand has changed in form and function throughout our evolution due to terrestrial bipedalism, tool use, and directional asymmetry (DA) such as handedness. …”
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Stable isotopic investigation of the feeding ecology of wild Bornean orangutans by Takumi Tsutaya, Anna Wong @ Wong Yun Moi, Peter T. Malim, Henry Bernard, Nanako O. Ogawa, Naohiko Ohkouchi, Shun Hongo, Tomoyuki Tajima, Tomoko Kanamori, Noko Kuze

“…Compared with African great ape species, orangutans are adapted to environments with chronic lower nutrition. …”
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Dynamics of host-reservoir transmission of Ebola with spillover potential to humans by Berge Tsanou, Jean Lubuma, Arsène Jaurès Ouemba Tassé, Hervé Michel Tenkam

“…Therefore human beings can be infected through direct contact with an infected animal (fruit-eating bat or great ape). It has been demonstrated that fruit-eating bats of pteropodidae family are potential reservoir of EVD. …”
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Structure and function of the social brain in primates by Roumazeilles, L

“…By integrating several great ape species, we were able to suggest a stepwise evolutionary trajectory for the connectivity of the temporal lobe. …”

Living at the edge: home range patterns of the Buraiga Chimpanzee Community, Kibale National Park, Uganda by Wren I. Edwards, Wren I. Edwards, Wren I. Edwards, Wren I. Edwards, Viorel D. Popescu, Nelson Guma, Hillary Agaba, Godfrey Balyesiima, Lydia Nakami, Nancy J. Stevens, Nancy J. Stevens, Nancy J. Stevens, Nancy J. Stevens

“…Seasonally, we found that Buraiga chimpanzees used a larger area during dry season months, compared with rainy season months. Documenting how great ape populations utilize increasingly anthropogenically influenced landscapes is important in order to facilitate long-term survival in the face of climate change, habitat fragmentation, and other ongoing threats.…”
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Regularized sequence-context mutational trees capture variation in mutation rates across the human genome. by Christopher J Adams, Mitchell Conery, Benjamin J Auerbach, Shane T Jensen, Iain Mathieson, Benjamin F Voight

“…We demonstrate application of Baymer in three ways-first, identifying differences in polymorphism probabilities between continental populations in the 1000 Genomes Phase 3 dataset, second, in a sparse data setting to examine the use of polymorphism models as a proxy for de novo mutation probabilities as a function of variant age, sequence context window size, and demographic history, and third, comparing model concordance between different great ape species. We find a shared context-dependent mutation rate architecture underlying our models, enabling a transfer-learning inspired strategy for modeling germline mutations. …”
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An evolutionarily conserved sexual signature in the primate brain. by Björn Reinius, Peter Saetre, Jennifer A Leonard, Ran Blekhman, Roxana Merino-Martinez, Yoav Gilad, Elena Jazin

“…We compared gene expression profiles in the occipital cortex of male and female humans (Homo sapiens, a great ape) and cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis, an old world monkey), two catarrhine species that show abundant morphological sexual dimorphism, as well as in common marmosets (Callithrix Jacchus, a new world monkey) which are relatively sexually monomorphic. …”
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Chimpanzees select comfortable nesting tree species by Camille Lacroux, Sabrina Krief, Stéphane Douady, Raphaël Cornette, Sophie Durand, Alfred Aleeje, Edward Asalu, Emmanuelle Pouydebat

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Past Connectivity but Recent Inbreeding in Cross River Gorillas Determined Using Whole Genomes from Single Hairs by Marina Alvarez-Estape, Harvinder Pawar, Claudia Fontsere, Amber E. Trujillo, Jessica L. Gunson, Richard A. Bergl, Magdalena Bermejo, Joshua M. Linder, Kelley McFarland, John F. Oates, Jacqueline L. Sunderland-Groves, Joseph Orkin, James P. Higham, Karine A. Viaud-Martinez, Esther Lizano, Tomas Marques-Bonet

“…Given the difficulty in sampling wild great ape populations and the small estimated size of the Cross River gorilla population, only one whole genome of a Cross River gorilla has been sequenced to date, hindering the study of this subspecies at the population level. …”
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Diversity and phylogeny of the tick-borne bacterial genus Candidatus Allocryptoplasma (Anaplasmataceae) by Ouass Sofian, Boulanger Nathalie, Lelouvier Benjamin, Insonere Jean-Louis-Marie, Lacroux Camille, Krief Sabrina, Asalu Edward, Rahola Nil, Duron Olivier

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A cross-sectional study of malaria transmission in suggests the existence of a potential bridge vector susceptible of ensuring the transfer of simian malaria parasites to humans by Neil-Michel Longo-Pendy, Larson Boundenga, Larson Boundenga, Boris Kevin Makanga, Clark Mbou-Boutambe, Lemonde Bouafou, Lemonde Bouafou, Ousmane Akone-Ella, Lynda Chancelya Nkoghe-Nkoghe, Sonia Lekana-Douki, Jean-Bernard Lekana-Douki, Jean-Bernard Lekana-Douki, Pierre Kengne, Pierre Kengne

“…Anopheles funestus, known to be involved in malaria transmission to humans, and An. moucheti-like, recently discovered in Gabon, and whose status in Plasmodium transmission is not yet elucidated, were found to be infected with great ape Plasmodium.DiscussionOur results raise the question of the potential switch of simian malaria parasites to humans. …”
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Survey of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in wild chimpanzee habitat in Western Uganda by Camille Lacroux, Sarah Bonnet, Emmanuelle Pouydebat, Marie Buysse, Nil Rahola, Sabine Rakotobe, John-Paul Okimat, Rachid Koual, Edward Asalu, Sabrina Krief, Olivier Duron

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