Claudine André

TL;DR: The sequencing and assembly of the bonobo genome is reported to study its evolutionary relationship with the chimpanzee and human genomes, and it is found that more than three per cent of the human genome is more closely related to either theBonobo or the chimpanzees genome than these are to each other.

TL;DR: Phylogenetic analyses based on this diverse set of Plasmodium parasites in African Apes shed new light on the evolutionary history of P. falciparum, and indicated that chimpanzees and bonobos maintain malaria parasites, to which humans are susceptible, a factor of some relevance to the renewed efforts to eradicate malaria.

TL;DR: While chimpanzees retain genomic variation that predates bonobo-chimpanzee speciation, extensive lineage sorting has occurred within bonobos such that much of their genome traces its ancestry back to a single common ancestor that postdates their origin as a group separate from chimpanzees.

TL;DR: This work sequenced the exome of 20 humans, 20 chimpanzees, and 20 bonobos and detected eight coding trans-species polymorphisms (trSNPs) that are shared among the three species and have segregated for approximately 14 My of independent evolution; the majority of these trSNPs were found in three genes of the major histocompatibility locus cluster, but one coding trSNP was uncovered in the gene LAD1.

TL;DR: The analyses indicate high levels of evolutionary constraint across much of the ejaculate combined with more rapid evolution of genes involved in immune defense and proteolysis, and general patterns of male reproductive protein evolution among apes and humans depend strongly on gene function but not on inferred differences in the intensity of sperm competition among extant species.