The Completed Bonobo Genome
The bonobo genome is sequenced. The letter reporting was recently published in Nature, and is available openly under the title, “The bonobo …
Category Archives: Molecular Biology
A New Malaria Pathogen Found In Chimpanzees From Gabon
Plasmodium falciparum is the protozoan parasite that causes malaria in humans and ultimately the death of 2-3 million people a …
Bonobo Genome & Bonobo Conservation Efforts
It seems like the news hasn’t gobbled up this news as adamantly as it did the news of the bonobo …
Alternative Splicing in Humans & Chimps
I could swear that in the past I had covered news that the minute genetic and massive phenotypic differences between …
Brainstorming the Future of Primate Brain Evolution Research
The following post is a departure from my usual reporting on an interesting primate related tidbit of research. I’ll be …
A SNP Resource for Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) Genomics
I’m posting this as I run out the door, so forgive me if it is a bit brief and incomplete …
The Human Mutation – a mutation in neuropsin is found only in humans
So if you have been in the dark about what’s been making a lot of buzz around the internet today, …
A bit on Chimpanzee kin selection, especially brother-brother relations
In chimpanzee communities, it pays to be close with your maternal brethren, according to a brand new publication in the …
Science magazine unveils the Macaque Genome
Science just published a whole slew of papers, posters, news articles, and the like on the Rhesus Macaque because the …
Making sense of the scrambled Gibbon genome
Remember when I told you that the genome of the gibbon was to be sequenced, all the way back in …
