Cortical Morphology and White Matter Tractography of Three Phylogenetically Distant Primates: Evidence for a Simian Elaboration
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Cortical Morphology and White Matter Tractography of Three Phylogenetically Distant Primates : Evidence for a Simian Elaboration. / Roumazeilles, Lea; Lange, Frederik J; Benn, R Austin; Andersson, Jesper L R ; Bertelsen, Mads F; Manger, Paul R; Flach, Edmund; Khrapitchev, Alexandre A; Bryant, Katherine L; Sallet, Jérôme; Mars, Rogier B.
In: Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 32, No. 8, 2022, p. 1608–1624.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Cortical Morphology and White Matter Tractography of Three Phylogenetically Distant Primates
T2 - Evidence for a Simian Elaboration
AU - Roumazeilles, Lea
AU - Lange, Frederik J
AU - Benn, R Austin
AU - Andersson, Jesper L R
AU - Bertelsen, Mads F
AU - Manger, Paul R
AU - Flach, Edmund
AU - Khrapitchev, Alexandre A
AU - Bryant, Katherine L
AU - Sallet, Jérôme
AU - Mars, Rogier B
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Comparative neuroimaging has been used to identify changes in white matter architecture across primate species phylogenetically close to humans, but few have compared the phylogenetically distant species. Here, we acquired postmortem diffusion imaging data from ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta), black-capped squirrel monkeys (Saimiri boliviensis), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). We were able to establish templates and surfaces allowing us to investigate sulcal, cortical, and white matter anatomy. The results demonstrate an expansion of the frontal projections of the superior longitudinal fasciculus complex in squirrel monkeys and rhesus macaques compared to ring-tailed lemurs, which correlates with sulcal anatomy and the lemur’s smaller prefrontal granular cortex. The connectivity of the ventral pathway in the parietal region is also comparatively reduced in ring-tailed lemurs, with the posterior projections of the inferior longitudinal fasciculus not extending toward parietal cortical areas as in the other species. In the squirrel monkeys we note a very specific occipito-parietal anatomy that is apparent in their surface anatomy and the expansion of the posterior projections of the optical radiation. Our study supports the hypothesis that the connectivity of the prefrontal-parietal regions became relatively elaborated in the simian lineage after divergence from the prosimian lineage.
AB - Comparative neuroimaging has been used to identify changes in white matter architecture across primate species phylogenetically close to humans, but few have compared the phylogenetically distant species. Here, we acquired postmortem diffusion imaging data from ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta), black-capped squirrel monkeys (Saimiri boliviensis), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). We were able to establish templates and surfaces allowing us to investigate sulcal, cortical, and white matter anatomy. The results demonstrate an expansion of the frontal projections of the superior longitudinal fasciculus complex in squirrel monkeys and rhesus macaques compared to ring-tailed lemurs, which correlates with sulcal anatomy and the lemur’s smaller prefrontal granular cortex. The connectivity of the ventral pathway in the parietal region is also comparatively reduced in ring-tailed lemurs, with the posterior projections of the inferior longitudinal fasciculus not extending toward parietal cortical areas as in the other species. In the squirrel monkeys we note a very specific occipito-parietal anatomy that is apparent in their surface anatomy and the expansion of the posterior projections of the optical radiation. Our study supports the hypothesis that the connectivity of the prefrontal-parietal regions became relatively elaborated in the simian lineage after divergence from the prosimian lineage.
U2 - 10.1093/cercor/bhab285
DO - 10.1093/cercor/bhab285
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34518890
VL - 32
SP - 1608
EP - 1624
JO - Cerebral Cortex
JF - Cerebral Cortex
SN - 1047-3211
IS - 8
ER -
ID: 282947234