DS2 designer pre-fusion F vaccine induces strong and protective antibody response against RSV infection by Yiling Yang, Ruoke Wang, Fenglin Guo, Tian Zhao, Yuqing Lei, Qianqian Yang, Yige Zeng, Ziqing Yang, Tatchapon Ajavavarakula, Ruijie Tan, Mingxi Li, Haodi Dong, Mengyue Niu, Keyan Bao, Hao Geng, Qining Lv, Qi Zhang, Xuanling Shi, Peng Liu, Jiwan Ge, Xinquan Wang, Linqi Zhang

“…In this study, we generated three recombinant vaccines using the chimpanzee adenovirus vector AdC68 to express DS-Cav1, SC-TM, and DS2. …”
Get full text

Le voisinage entre hommes, forêt et les chimpanzés : point de vue depuis le territoire des villageois, à l’extérieur du Parc National de Kibale by Sarah Bortolamiol, Marianne Cohen, Andrew Seguya, Richard Dumez, Sabrina Krief

“…La zone d’étude de Sebitoli, située à l’extrémité nord du parc national de Kibale (Ouganda) est circonscrite dans une poche de forêt de 25 km² où une communauté de chimpanzés est en cours d’habituation depuis 2008 par l’équipe du Sebitoli Chimpanzee Project (SCP). Autour du territoire des chimpanzés, les territoires des hommes - dont la densité peut atteindre 335 habitants/km² - encerclent la forêt. …”
Get full text

Heterologous cAd3-Ebola and MVA-EbolaZ vaccines are safe and immunogenic in US and Uganda phase 1/1b trials by Myra Happe, Amelia R. Hofstetter, Jing Wang, Galina V. Yamshchikov, LaSonji A. Holman, Laura Novik, Larisa Strom, Francis Kiweewa, Salim Wakabi, Monica Millard, Colleen F. Kelley, Sarah Kabbani, Srilatha Edupuganti, Allison Beck, Florence Kaltovich, Tamar Murray, Susanna Tsukerman, Derick Carr, Carl Ashman, Daphne A. Stanley, Aurélie Ploquin, Robert T. Bailer, Richard Schwartz, Fatim Cham, Allan Tindikahwa, Zonghui Hu, Ingelise J. Gordon, Nadine Rouphael, Katherine V. Houser, Emily E. Coates, Barney S. Graham, Richard A. Koup, John R. Mascola, Nancy J. Sullivan, Merlin L. Robb, Julie A. Ake, Kirsten E. Lyke, Mark J. Mulligan, Julie E. Ledgerwood, Hannah Kibuuka, the VRC 208 and RV 422 study team

“…We investigated the safety and immunogenicity of a heterologous prime-boost regimen involving a chimpanzee adenovirus 3 vectored Ebola vaccine [either monovalent (cAd3-EBOZ) or bivalent (cAd3-EBO)] prime followed by a recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara EBOV vaccine (MVA-EbolaZ) boost in two phase 1/1b randomized open-label clinical trials in healthy adults in the United States (US) and Uganda (UG). …”
Get full text

Knuckle-walking and behavioural flexibility in great apes by Emily LR Tarrega-Saunders, Charlotte King, Alice M Roberts, Susannah KS Thorpe

“…Extended wrist postures during knuckle-walking in chimpanzees compared with columnar wrist postures in gorillas were associated with chimpanzees’ more arboreal lifestyle, and are supposedly constrained by fundamental differences in carpal morphology. …”
Get full text

Plasmodium chez les grands singes africains by Linda Duval

“…Thus, a large molecular diversity of Plasmodium infecting chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos in Africa was recently discovered. …”
Get full text

Contrasting two versions of the 4-cup 2-item disjunctive syllogism task in great apes by Benjamin Jones, Josep Call

“…Abstract Chimpanzees excel at inference tasks which require that they search for a single food item from partial information. …”
Get full text

Latest news from the bonobos: Pan paniscus myths and realities by David Beaune

“…Bonobos are our closest living relatives along with chimpanzees. They attract much attention from anthropologists who want to better understand our primate origins and more recently from the public because of their remarkable behavior and matriarchal social system. …”
Get full text

Rôle des environnements dans les origines et l’évolution de la bipédie chez les hominidés : exemple des zones boisées sèches de l’Afrique by Brigitte Senut

“…These precursors, different from chimpanzees and humans in their anatomy and proportions, climbed trees in different ways, probably without a hallux as divergent as that of chimpanzees. …”
Get full text

Examining Mammalian facial behavior using Facial Action Coding Systems (FACS) and combinatorics. by Aisha Mahmoud, Lauren Scott, Brittany N Florkiewicz

“…Our study aimed to assess how well the existing literature represents the potential range of facial signals in two previously studied species: chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and domesticated cats (Felis silvestris catus). …”
Get full text

Comparative Cognitive Science and Convergent Evolution: Humans and Elephants by Ross Don

“…Comparative cognitive science of humans has tended to overwhelmingly emphasize similarities and differences between humans and other living hominids, particularly chimpanzees and bonobos. In thus under-emphasizing convergent evolution, this skew systematically misidentifies several crucial explanatory targets, particularly where cultural evolution is concerned. …”
Get full text

Comment définir l’humain à partir de sa diversité ? Questions épistémologiques et enjeux philosophiques by Mathilde Lequin

“…Since 1995, 15 new species have been described in the hominin clade (including all forms closer to extant humans than to extant chimpanzees and bonobos). Through an approach combining epistemology and the philosophy of science, this note shows that the diversity of hominins is not only a matter of quantification, but also a biological and anthropological issue. …”
Get full text

Imitation and the development of infant learning, memory, and categorisation by Emily JH Jones, Jane S Herbert

“…The ability to copy the actions of others is present from birth in both infant humans and chimpanzees and provides a method for the social transmission of knowledge. …”
Get full text

In Vitro Systems for the Study of Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Garrick K. Wilson, Zania Stamataki

“…Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has a restricted tropism to human and chimpanzees; thus investigations of HCV biology have been hindered for many years due to a lack of small animal models. …”
Get full text

Theoretical modeling of hepatitis C acute infection in liver-humanized mice support pre-clinical assessment of candidate viruses for controlled-human-infection studies by Zhenzhen Shi, Adquate Mhlanga, Yuji Ishida, Ari Josephson, Nicholson T. Collier, Hiromi Abe-Chayama, Chise Tateno-Mukaidani, Scott J. Cotler, Jonathan Ozik, Marian Major, Jordan J. Feld, Kazuaki Chayama, Harel Dahari

“…We show that the models reproduce the measured HCV kinetics in humanized mice, which are consistent with early acute HCV-host dynamics in immunocompetent chimpanzees. Our findings suggest that humanized mice are well-suited to support development of a CHI model. …”
Get full text

Serial visual reversal learning in captive black-handed spider monkeys, Ateles geoffroyi by Jules Dorschner, Laura Teresa Hernandez Salazar, Matthias Laska

“…The spider monkeys outperformed most other primate and nonprimate mammal species tested so far on this type of cognitive task, including chimpanzees, with regard to their learning speed in both the initial learning task and in the first reversal task, suggesting a high degree of behavioral flexibility and inhibitory control. …”
Get full text

Influence of food availability on the diet and activity budget of two western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) groups of differing size in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park,... by Terence Fuh Neba, Giuseppe Donati, Angelique Todd, Shelly Masi

“…Such flexibility may better allow WLG groups to track ripe fruits when available but, unlike sympatric chimpanzees, switch to more herbivorous diets when necessary, adjusting activity budgets accordingly ; WLGs thus may be considered more resilient faced with environmental change such as forest degradation.…”
Get full text

Playing hide and seek with primates: A comparative study of Theory of Mind by Aurore San‑Galli, Marie Devaine, Cinzia Trapanese, Shelly Masi, Sébastien Bouret, Jean Daunizeau

“…We first validated our model in human subjects and then tested 6 species of captive non-human primates (3 species of great apes: orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and 3 species of old-world monkeys: lion-tailed macaques, rhesus macaques and collared mangabeys) in an adaptation of the task used in the human study. …”
Get full text

Détermination du statut du Chimpanzé, Pan troglodytes verus, dans une zone non protégée de savane boisée à Bagnomba, Sénégal : Implication pour sa conservation by Papa Ibnou Ndiaye, Landing Badji, Stacy Marie Lindshield, Cheikh Tidiane Bâ, Jill Pruetz

“…Il s’agit entre autres de USFWS, African Wildlife Foundation, la direction des Eaux et Forêts et Chasse et de la Conservation des Sols, la Direction des Parcs Nationaux, les populations locales, les agents du projet Fongoli Savana Chimpanzees et l’Institut Jane Goodall Espagne basé au Sénégal.…”
Get full text