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Thomas Patterson 《Primates; journal of primatology》1979,20(3):341-354
A group of captive pygmy chimpanzees (Pan paniscus) was studied in the San Diego Zoological Gardens. The behavior patterns that these animals exhibit are described. Each of
these behavior patterns is compared to those described for wild and captive common chimpanzees (P. troglodytes). Differences in behavior between these two species are attributed to specialization of the pygmy chimpanzee to a rain forest
habitat and to a monogamous social system. 相似文献
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Gábor Zsurka Tatiana Kudina Viktoriya Peeva Kerstin Hallmann Christian E Elger Konstantin Khrapko Wolfram S Kunz 《BMC evolutionary biology》2010,10(1):270
Background
We have analyzed the complete mitochondrial genomes of 22 Pan paniscus (bonobo, pygmy chimpanzee) individuals to assess the detailed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) phylogeny of this close relative of Homo sapiens. 相似文献3.
Brian T. Shea 《American journal of physical anthropology》1986,70(4):475-488
A number of primatologists have followed Coolidge (Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 18:1–57, 1933) in suggesting that 1) there are significant shape differences in scapula form between pygmy and common chimpanzees, 2) scapulae of P. paniscus resemble those of hylobatids more than do those of P. troglodytes, and 3) therefore pygmy chimpanzees may exhibit a greater component of arm-swinging and other arboreal behaviors than common chimpanzees. In this paper I utilize a comparative analysis of ontogenetic allometries of linear dimensions to determine shape differences in the scapulae of adult pygmy and common chimpanzees and to clarify size-related changes in shape resulting from ontogenetic scaling, i.e., the differential extension of common patterns of growth allometry. Results demonstrate that the scapulae of adult P. paniscus are relatively narrower (in a direction approximately perpendicular to the scapula spine) than those of P. troglodytes, supporting Coolidge's original claim. The allometric analysis further demonstrates, however, that the two chimpanzee species exhibit ontogenetic scaling for all proportions of the scapula examined. Thus, adult pygmy chimpanzees have the scapula proportions observed in small adult and subadult P. troglodytes of comparable scapula size. The implications of this finding for past claims concerning differences in locomotor behavior between the species are discussed. This work lends additional support to previous studies that have demonstrated a high frequency of ontogenetic scaling within the genus Pan and a pedomorphic or juvenilized morphology in the pygmy chimpanzee. 相似文献
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Hybridization in situ was used to identify rDNA in chromosomes of the pygmy chimpanzee, mountain gorilla, and siamang gibbon. In contrast to other Pongids, and man, the gorilla has only two pairs of rDNA-containing chromosomes. The single pair in the siamang bears no resemblance to the nucleolar chromosome of the closely related lar gibbon. Pan paniscus and P. troglodytes have the same rDNA distribution, and similar karyotypes except in the structure of chromosome 23p. Grain counts over unbanded preparations show that the human, orangutan, and both chimpanzees have about the same total rDNA multiplicity. 相似文献
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Heinz Brehme 《American journal of physical anthropology》1975,42(2):255-262
The characteristics of the epidermal ridge system were studied in a series of eighteen lesser or pygmy chimpanzees (Pan paniscus). The general ridge alignments are very similar to those of the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes); Biegert ('61). On the average the pattern intensity (P.I.) of the palm configurations is considerably higher in the pygmy chimpanzee than in the chimpanzee, thus representing the highest total palm pattern intensity of all species of the Hominoidea. The sole configurations show parallel main results to those of the palm; however, the decreased sole pattern frequency of the pygmy chimpanzee is of a smaller predominance only as compared to the values of the other species of this superfamily. The preliminary data on the finger tip patterns, translated into P.I. values, are much higher than in chimpanzees and within the range of the mean values of gorillas (Brehme, '73), while those of the toes of pygmy chimpanzees seem to possess the lowest P.I. values of the African apes. 相似文献
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Knowledge of periparturitional behaviors in captive primates may contribute to infant survival and is particularly important for endangered species, such as the bonobo, or pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus). Given that the bonobo is considered to be closely related to humans, such knowledge also may offer insights about the evolutionary development of complex maternal patterns. To date, however, only one observation of a P. paniscus birth has been reported. The periparturitional behaviors of a mature bonobo (P. paniscus) female during the pregnancy and birth of two infants are described in detail. Information not previously reported for the species is included. Periparturitional behaviors were similar for both births. 相似文献
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Esther P. Leeflang Igor N. Chesnokov Carl W. Schmid 《Journal of molecular evolution》1993,37(6):566-572
The PV subfamily of Alu repeats in human DNA is largely composed of recently inserted members. Here we document additional members of the PV subfamily that are found in chimpanzee but not in the orthologous loci of human and gorilla, confirming the relatively recent and independent expansion of this Alu subfamily in the chimpanzee lineage. As further evidence for the youth of this Alu subfamily, one PV Alu repeat is specific to Pan troglodytes, whereas others are present in Pan paniscus as well. The A-rich tails of these Alu repeats have different lengths in Pan paniscus and Pan troglodytes. The dimorphisms caused by the presence and absence of PV Alu repeats and the length polymorphisms attributed to their A-rich tails should provide valuable genetic markers for molecular-based studies of chimpanzee relationships. The existence of lineage-specific Alu repeats is a major sequence difference between human and chimpanzee DNAs.
Correspondence to: C.W. Schmid 相似文献
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N. S. Kupriyanova K. K. Nechvolodov A. S. Voronov D. V. Shibalev A. P. Ryskov 《Russian Journal of Genetics》2002,38(8):967-970
Investigation of randomly cloned genomic and chromosome-specific sequences of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) from different organisms show that different regions of this long repeat unit evolve at different rates. This proves to be true not only with regard to evolutionary variability of transcribed and nontranscribed intergenic (spacer) regions of rDNA. The intergenic spacer (rIGS) of human ribosomal DNA contains both highly variable and more conservative regions with putative regulatory functions. In the present study a comparative analysis of some segments of the rIGS pre-promoter (regulatory) region in human and pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus) was carried out. For these purposes, the corresponding DNA fragments were amplified in PCR with oligonucleotide primers specific to human rIGS and sequenced. Our results show that at the background of substantial structural similarity of these regions in man and chimpanzee, i.e., the presence of highly homologous sequences and similar repetitive units, there are substantial differences between them. These differences are associated with point mutations, insertions, deletions, and complex structural rearrangements. 相似文献
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Comparison of the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of the high-Arctic ringed seal (Phoca hispida) and the sub-Arctic harbour (P. vitulina) and grey (Halichoerus grypus) seals shows that they are genetically equidistant from one another. We relate the evolutionary divergence of the three species
to expanding glaciation in the Arctic Basin and establish, in conjunction with mtDNA data, a standard reference for calibration
of recent divergence events among mammalian taxa. In the present study, we apply the “Phoca standard” to the dating of divergences within the hominid phylogenetic tree. After determining the relative rates of substitution
over all mitochondrial protein-coding genes in the different evolutionary lineages, we estimate that humans and chimpanzees
diverged from each other 6.1 Mya (95% confidence limits: 5.2–6.9 Mya). The corresponding lower-limit divergence between common
chimpanzee,Pan troglodytes, and pygmy chimpanzee,P. paniscus, occurred 3 (2.4–3.6) Mya, and the primary split within theP. troglodytes complex 1.6 (1.3–2.0) Mya. The analyses suggest that the split betweenGorilla andPan/Homo occurred 8.4 (7.3–9.4) Mya. They also suggest thatPongo (orangutan) and the lineage leading to gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans diverged 18.1 (16.5–19.6) Mya. The present analysis
is independent of the hominid paleontological record and inferential morphological interpretations and thus is a novel approach
to the lower-limit dating of recent divergences.
Correspondence to: U. Arnason 相似文献
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Frances J. White 《International journal of primatology》1988,9(3):179-193
The pygmy chimpanzee, or bonobo, Pan paniscus,diplays a fission-fusion social organization in which individuals associate in parties that vary in size and composition.
Data from a 2-year field study of nonprovisioned P. paniscusshow that party composition varies with party size. Although females, on average, outnumber males, the proportion of males
in the party increases in larger parties. This effect was not due to the greater number of known females. Both females and
males will join and leave a party in the company of others, but only males appear frequently to join or leave as lone individuals.
All-male parties were not observed, but all-female (nonnursery) parties were relatively common. These trends reflect greater
cohesion among females than observed in P. troglodytes schweinfurthii.Cohesion between males and female P. paniscusmay increase with party size. 相似文献
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Takeshi Furuichi 《Primates; journal of primatology》1987,28(3):309-318
The sexual swelling and copulatory behavior of ten pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus) females in a wild group were studied at Wamba, Republic of Zaïre. Since the maximum size of the sexual skin revealed great individual variations depending on age and adolescent females showed little cyclic fluctuation in size, the sexual swelling was measured according to its firmness which periodically fluctuated in all age classes. The duration of maximum swelling and the cycle length were longer inP. paniscus than inP. troglodytes. Although pregnant females and those with newborn infants were sexually inactive, females with infants older than 3 years copulated as frequently as those without dependent infants. Contrary to previous reports on the sexuality ofP. paniscus, copulation was mostly restricted to the maximum swelling phase. All females were usually found in a large mixed party containing both sexes and offspring, regardless of their sexual receptivity. 相似文献
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This analysis investigates the ontogeny of body size dimorphism in apes. The processes that lead to adult body size dimorphism are illustrated and described. Potential covariation between ontogenetic processes and socioecological variables is evaluated. Mixed-longitudinal growth data from 395 captive individuals (representing Hylobates lar [gibbon], Hylobates syndactylus [siamang], Pongo pygmaeus [orangutan], Gorilla gorilla [gorilla], Pan paniscus [pygmy chimpanzee], and Pan troglodytes [“common” chimpanzee]) form the basis of this study. Results illustrate heterogeneity in the growth processes that produce ape dimorphism. Hylobatids show no sexual differentiation in body weight growth. Adult body size dimorphism in Pongo can be largely attributed to indeterminate male growth. Dimorphism in African apes is produced by two different ontogenetic processes. Both pygmy chimpanzees (Pan paniscus) and gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) become dimorphic primarily through bimaturism (sex differences in duration of growth). In contrast, sex differences in rate of growth account for the majority of dimorphism in common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Diversity in the ontogenetic pathways that produce adult body size dimorphism may be related to multiple evolutionary causes of dimorphism. The lack of sex differences in hylobatid growth is consistent with a monogamous social organization. Adult dimorphism in Pongo can be attributed to sexual selection for indeterminate male growth. Interpretation of dimorphism in African apes is complicated because factors that influence female ontogeny have a substantial effect on the resultant adult dimorphism. Sexual selection for prolonged male growth in gorillas may also increase bimaturism relative to common chimpanzees. Variation in female growth is hypothesized to covary with foraging adaptations and with differences in female competition that result from these foraging adaptations. Variation in male growth probably corresponds to variation in level of sexual selection. © 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc. 相似文献
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Genichi Idani 《Primates; journal of primatology》1986,27(4):441-447
The role in seed dispersal played by the pygmy chimpanzees (Pan paniscus) inhabiting Wamba, Republic of Zaïre, was studied. Germination was tested for seeds of 17 plant species recovered from the feces of pygmy chimpanzees at Wamba. The fecal seeds of 13 species germinated, and in six of the species the germination rate for the fecal seeds was higher than that of control seeds. Although five other species showed a higher germination rate in the control seeds than in the fecal seeds, the remaining two species revealed no difference in germination rate between the fecal and control seeds. There was no great difference in germination velocity between the fecal and control seeds of the same species. For comparison, seeds of four plant species collected from the feces of common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and gibbons (Hylobates lar) in captivity in Okinawa were tested for their germinability. In this test, although the seeds had passed through the digestive tract, their germinability demonstrated little change. Based on the behavioral characteristics of the pygmy chimpanzee at Wamba and observations of the captive primates on Okinawa, it seems that pygmy chimpanzees may play an important role in the seed dispersal of fruit plant species at Wamba. 相似文献
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Homozygous In(10)17Rk mice contain a paracentric inversion within Chromosome (Chr) 10 and exhibit a pygmy phenotype, suggesting that the distal inversion breakpoint is within the pygmy (pg) locus. In order to obtain the pygmy gene by positional cloning procedures, In(10)17Rk DNA was subjected to RFLP analysis with single-copy probes derived from the wild-type pygmy locus. This analysis identified a DNA polymorphism in the DBA/2J mouse strain on which the In(10)17Rk mutation was originally induced. A detailed characterization of this polymorphism revealed the presence of a novel, tandemly repeated DNA element. Copy number estimation experiments indicate that there are approximately 100,000 copies of this element in the haploid DBA/2J genome. PCR typing studies revealed the presence of the repeat at the pygmy locus of 6 of the 18 Mus domesticus strains analyzed. The absence of the repeat from the pygmy locus of 12 strains of the M. domesticus species and from the M. caroli, M. spretus, M. castaneus, and M. molossinus species suggests that the repeat could serve as a strain-specific hybridization probe in genetic mapping studies. Finally, the novel tandem DNA repeat is conserved in both rat and human genomes as indicated by Southern hybridization experiments. 相似文献
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Similarities in chromosome banding patterns and hornologies in DNA sequence between chromosomes of the great apes and humans
have suggested that human chromosome 2 originated through the fusion of two ancestral ape chromosomes. A lot of work has been
directed at understanding the nature and mechanism of this fusion. The recent availability of the human chrornosome-2-specific
alpha satellite DNA probe D2Z and the human chromosome-2p-specific subtelomeric DNA probe D2S445 prompted us to attempt cross-hybridization
with chromosomes of the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) to search for equivalent locations in the great apes and to comment on the origin of human chromosome 2. The probes gave
different results. No hybridization to the chromosome-2-specific alpha satellite DNA probe was observed on the presumed homologous
great ape chromosomes using both high-stringency and low-stringency post-hybridization washes, whereas the subtelomeric-DNA
probe specific for chromosome 2p hybridized to telomeric sites of the short arm of chromosome 12 of all three great apes.
These observations suggest an evolutionary difference in the number of alpha satellite DNA repeat units in the equivalent
ape chromosomes presumably involved in the chromosome fusion. Nevertheless, complete conservation of DNA sequence of the subtelomeric
repeat sequence D2S445 in the ape chromosomes is demonstrated. 相似文献
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The fluorochrome pattern produced by DA/DAPI double staining in Pan paniscus chromosomes is reported. The location of DA/DAPI prominent bands differs from that reported for all other hominoid species. However, the pattern in the pygmy chimpanzee is most similar to that seen in Pan troglodytes. Comparison of the DA/DAPI pattern of the other hominoid species allows the construction of a proposed hominoid ancestral karyotype and a preliminary phylogenetic reconstruction of DA/DAPI bands for the great apes and man. 相似文献
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A major histocompatibility complex class I allele shared by two species of chimpanzee 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Stewart Cooper Erin J. Adams R. Spencer Wells Christopher M. Walker P. Parham 《Immunogenetics》1998,47(3):212-217
Little is known regarding the rates at which natural selection can modify or retain antigen presenting alleles at the major
histocompatibility complex (MHC). Discovery of identical [1101 base pairs (bp)] coding regions at the MHC class I C locus in Pan troglodytes and Pan paniscus, chimpanzee species that diverged ∼2.3 million years ago, now indicates that a class I allotype can survive for at least
this period. Remarkable conservation was also reflected in the (1799 bp) introns where a maximum of only six substitutions
distinguished five alleles (three from P. troglodytes and two from P. paniscus) that encoded the identical heavy chain allotype. Analysis of a more distantly related human allele, HLA-Cw
*
0702, corroborated that intron variation was non-uniform along the gene. Thus we provide a clear reference frame for the lifetime
of an MHC class I allotype, a direct estimate of allelic substitution rates, and evidence for an unusual evolution of MHC
class I introns.
Received: 13 August 1997 相似文献
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Human satellite DNAs I, II and IV were transcribed to yield radioactive complementary RNAs (cRNAs). These cRNAs were hybridised to metaphase chromosomes of man, chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus). The results of this in situ hybridisation were analysed quantitatively and compared with accepted chromosome homologies based on Giemsa banding patterns. The cRNA to satellite II (cRNAII) did not hybridise to chimpanzee chromosomes, although its hybridisation to chromosomes of gorilla and orang utan yielded more autoradiograph grains than hybridisation to human chromosomes, and cRNAIV hybridised to many chromosomes of gorilla and chimpanzee but was almost entirely restricted to the Y chromosome in orang utan. Most sites of hybridisation were located on homologous chromosomes in all four species, but there were a number of sites which showed no correspondence between satellite DNA location and chromosome banding patterns, and others where a given chromosomal location hybridised with different cRNAs in each species. These results are in contrast to those found for many transcribed DNA sequences, where the same sequence is usually located at homologous chromosome sites in different species, and appear to cast doubt on many proposed models of satellite DNA function. 相似文献
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Hiroshi Ihobe 《Primates; journal of primatology》1990,31(1):109-112
Interspecific interactions accompanied by physical contacts between wild pygmy chimpanzees (Pan paniscus) and red colobus (Colobus badius) were observed on three occasions at Wamba, Republic of Zaire. In all cases, the red colobus initiated the interactions by
approaching the pygmy chimpanzees. Most of the pygmy chimpanzees, which were within 5 m of the red colobus, were juveniles
or infants but the adult male pygmy chimpanzees never showed any interest in the red colobus. The red colobus groomed the
chimpanzees in two cases, but the latter never groomed the former. No true aggressive interactions were observed between the
two species. The lack of any evidence of hunting of red colobus through longitudinal studies of the pygmy chimpanzees of Wamba,
together with the present observations, suggests that red colobus are probably not targets of hunting by the pygmy chimpanzees. 相似文献
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A human-derived probe,p82H,hybridizes to the centromeres of gorilla,chimpanzee, and orangutan 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
A human-derived centromeric sequence, p82H, hybridizes to DNA from gorilla, chimpanzee, pygmy chimpanzee, and orangutan. On DNA blots, multimeric ladders based on 170 or 340 bp repeat units are seen. In metaphase chromosome preparations from these species, p82H hybridizes to the centromeric region of every chromosome. p82H forms less stable hybrids with DNA from the lion-tailed macaque and does not hybridize to DNA or chromosomes of the owl monkey or the mouse. 相似文献