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Cross-species cortical alignment identifies different types of anatomical reorganization in the primate temporal lobe

  1. Nicole Eichert  Is a corresponding author
  2. Emma C Robinson
  3. Katherine L Bryant
  4. Saad Jbabdi
  5. Mark Jenkinson
  6. Longchuan Li
  7. Kristine Krug
  8. Kate E Watkins
  9. Rogier B Mars
  1. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  2. King's College London, United Kingdom
  3. Emory University, United States
  4. Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.53232
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  1. Nicole Eichert
  2. Emma C Robinson
  3. Katherine L Bryant
  4. Saad Jbabdi
  5. Mark Jenkinson
  6. Longchuan Li
  7. Kristine Krug
  8. Kate E Watkins
  9. Rogier B Mars
(2020)
Cross-species cortical alignment identifies different types of anatomical reorganization in the primate temporal lobe
eLife 9:e53232.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.53232
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Abstract

Evolutionary adaptations of temporo-parietal cortex are considered to be a critical specialization of the human brain. Cortical adaptations, however, can affect different aspects of brain architecture, including local expansion of the cortical sheet or changes in connectivity between cortical areas. We distinguish different types of changes in brain architecture using a computational neuroanatomy approach. We investigate the extent to which between-species alignment, based on cortical myelin, can predict changes in connectivity patterns across macaque, chimpanzee, and human. We show that expansion and relocation of brain areas can predict terminations of several white matter tracts in temporo-parietal cortex, including the middle and superior longitudinal fasciculus, but not the arcuate fasciculus. This demonstrates that the arcuate fasciculus underwent additional evolutionary modifications affecting the temporal lobe connectivity pattern. This approach can flexibly be extended to include other features of cortical organization and other species, allowing direct tests of comparative hypotheses of brain organization.

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This study used previously published datasets and availability of source data for the different data sets is provided in an overview table in the main manuscript ('Data Availability Overview'). The anonymised human MRI dataset that was generated for the present study is available via OpenNeuro under the accession code ds002634 (version 1.0.1). The results scene files have been made available from the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging's GitLab at git.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/neichert/project_MSM. Group-level myelin-maps and tract surface maps of the three species will be openly accessible as part of the results scene files. Numerical data underlying Figure 5 and Appendix 3 - Figure 2 are provided as Source Data with the article. All further derived data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.

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  1. Nicole Eichert

    Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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    nicole.eichert@psy.ox.ac.uk
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    No competing interests declared.
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  2. Emma C Robinson

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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    No competing interests declared.

  3. Katherine L Bryant

    Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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    No competing interests declared.

  4. Saad Jbabdi

    Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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    No competing interests declared.

  5. Mark Jenkinson

    Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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  6. Longchuan Li

    Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, Atlanta, United States
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    No competing interests declared.

  7. Kristine Krug

    Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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    Kristine Krug, Reviewing editor, eLife.
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  8. Kate E Watkins

    Department of Experimental Pschology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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    No competing interests declared.
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  9. Rogier B Mars

    Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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    No competing interests declared.

Funding

Wellcome (203730/Z/16/Z)

  • Nicole Eichert

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship (750026)

  • Katherine L Bryant

Medical Research Council (MR/L009013/1)

  • Saad Jbabdi

National Institute for Health Research

  • Mark Jenkinson

Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

  • Mark Jenkinson

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/H016902/1)

  • Kristine Krug

Wellcome (101092/Z/13/Z)

  • Kristine Krug

Other (R01MH118534)

  • Longchuan Li

Other (P50MH100029)

  • Longchuan Li

Other (R01MH118285)

  • Longchuan Li

Wellcome (203139/Z/16/Z)

  • Rogier B Mars

NIHR Oxford Heath Biomedical Research Centre

  • Rogier B Mars

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/N019814/1)

  • Rogier B Mars

Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (452-13-015)

  • Rogier B Mars

Academy of Medical Sciences

  • Emma C Robinson

British Heart Foundation

  • Emma C Robinson

Government Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

  • Emma C Robinson

Wellcome (SBF003\1116)

  • Emma C Robinson

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Timothy Verstynen, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Ethics

Animal experimentation: Chimpanzee data:Data were acquired at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center (YNPRC) at Emory University through separate studies covered by animal research protocols approved by YNPRC and the Emory University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (approval no. YER-2001206). These chimpanzee MRI scans were obtained from a data archive of scans obtained prior to the 2015 implementation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Institutes of Health regulations governing research with chimpanzees. All the scans reported in this publication were completed by the end of 2012.Macaque Data:Procedures of the in vivo macaque data acquisition were carried out in accordance with Home Office (UK) Regulations and European Union guidelines (EU directive 86/609/EEC; EU Directive 2010/63/EU).

Human subjects: The study was approved by the Central University (of Oxford) Research Ethics Committee (CUREC, R55787/RE001) in accordance with the regulatory standards of the Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki). All participants gave informed consent to their participation and were monetarily compensated for their participation.

Version history

  1. Received: October 31, 2019
  2. Accepted: March 19, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: March 23, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: April 23, 2020 (version 2)

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© 2020, Eichert et al.

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  1. Nicole Eichert
  2. Emma C Robinson
  3. Katherine L Bryant
  4. Saad Jbabdi
  5. Mark Jenkinson
  6. Longchuan Li
  7. Kristine Krug
  8. Kate E Watkins
  9. Rogier B Mars
(2020)
Cross-species cortical alignment identifies different types of anatomical reorganization in the primate temporal lobe
eLife 9:e53232.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.53232

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