"Pan paniscus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The pygmy chimpanzee, a species of the genus Pan, family HOMINIDAE. Its common name is Bonobo, which was once considered a separate genus by some; others considered it a subspecies of PAN TROGLODYTES. Its range is confined to the forests of the central Zaire basin. Despite its name, it is often of equal size to P. troglodytes.
| Descriptor ID |
D019974
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.313.988.400.112.400.600
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| Concept/Terms |
Pan paniscus- Pan paniscus
- Bonobo
- Bonobos
- Chimpanzee, Pygmy
- Chimpanzees, Pygmy
- Pygmy Chimpanzees
- Pygmy Chimpanzee
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pan paniscus" by people in Profiles.
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OpenApePose, a database of annotated ape photographs for pose estimation. Elife. 2023 Dec 11; 12.
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Differences in the mutual eye gaze of bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). J Comp Psychol. 2020 08; 134(3):318-322.
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Evolution of ASPM coding variation in apes and associations with brain structure in chimpanzees. Genes Brain Behav. 2019 09; 18(7):e12582.
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A fruit in the hand or two in the bush? Divergent risk preferences in chimpanzees and bonobos. Biol Lett. 2008 Jun 23; 4(3):246-9.
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Animal cognition: great apes wait for grapes. Curr Biol. 2007 Nov 06; 17(21):R922-3.
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Complex SNP-based haplotypes in three human helicases: implications for cancer association studies. Genome Res. 2002 Apr; 12(4):627-39.