NIN Primate Brain Bank/Utrecht University

The dataset comprises of structural MRIs from 51 primate individuals. Full details are available in Navarrete et al. 2018.

Usage Agreement

Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA)- Standard INDI data sharing policy. Prohibits use of the data for commercial purposes.

Species

• Microcebus murinus
• Galago senegalensis
• Eulemur coronatus
• Aotus lemurinus griseimembra
• Aotus trivirgatus boliviensis
• Ateles fusciceps robustus
• Lagothrix lagotricha
• Callimico goeldii
• Callithrix geoffroyi
• Callithrix jacchus
• Callithrix penicillata
• Callithrix pygmaea
• Cebus apella
• Leontopithecus rosalia
• Saguinus fuscicollis weddelli
• Saguinus imperator
• Saguinus midas
• Saguinus oedipus
• Saimiri boliviensis
• Saimiri sciureus
• Pithecia pithecia
• Cercopithecus hamlyni
• Cercopithecus mitis albogularis
• Cercopithecus nictitans
• Colobus guereza
• Erythrocebus patas
• Lophocebus albigena
• Macaca arctoides
• Macaca fascicularis
• Macaca fuscata
• Macaca mulatta
• Macaca nemestrina
• Macaca nigra
• Macaca silenus
• Macaca sylvana
• Mandrillus sphinx
• Papio hamadryas
• Gorilla gorilla gorilla
• Pan paniscus
• Pan troglodytes troglodytes

Sample Description

• Sample size: 51
• Age distribution: 3.2-45 years
• Weight distribution: 0.05-43kg
• Sex distribution: 27 male, 24 female

Phenotypic Assessments

NA

Scan Procedures and Parameters

Post-mortem data. Specimens were loaned with permission from the Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience Primate Brain Bank (PBB; http://www.primatebrainbank.org/). No individuals are sacrificed for PBB brain issue. Instead, brains are collected from individuals that died from natural causes or that had to be humanely euthanized for reasons unrelated to the tissue collection. Thus the PBB allows brain tissue to be preserved that would otherwise go to waste.

Contrast agent: In most cases Fomblin (Solvay Specialty Polymers, Brussels, Belgium)

Scan sequences

• Scanner type:
  • 50 individuals: Varian small-bore 9.4-T scanner (Varian NMR Instruments, Palo Alto, CA, USA)
  • 1 individual: Siemens Magnetom trio 3-T scanner
• Head coil:
• Optimization of the magnetic field prior to data acquisition:
• Structural:
  • Varian small-bore 9.4T scanner (T1)
  • 512 × 256 × 256 voxel matrix
  • Voxel resolution: Proportion to size of brain, ranging from 0.068-9.37mm
  • TE: 5ms
  • TR: 30, 100 ms
  • Flip angle: 10°
  • Siemens Magnetom trio 3T scanner (T1)
  • 256 x 256 x 256 voxel matrix
  • Voxel resolution: mm
  • TE: 2.6ms
  • TR: 2500ms
  • Flip angle: 10°

Publications

• Navarrete, A. F., Blezer, E. L. A., Pagnotta, M., de Viet, E. S. M., Todorov, O. S., Lindenfors, P., Laland, K. N. & Reader, S. M. 2018. Primate brain anatomy: New volumetric MRI measurements for neuroanatomical studies. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 91, 1-9. (Open access).

Personnel

• Ana F. Navarrete^1,2
• Erwin L.A. Blezer³
• Orlin S. Todorov²
• Patrik Lindenfors^4,5
• Kevin N. Laland¹
• Simon M. Reader^2,6

¹Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK
²Department of Biology and Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
³Biomedical MR Imaging and Spectroscopy Group, Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
⁴Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
⁵Centre for Cultural Evolution & Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
⁶Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Acknowledgements

We thank the Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience Primate Brain Bank (PBB) for permission to scan the reported brains, Dr. Corbert van Eden, PBB coordinator, and Dr. Ido Toxopeus for his support of the early PBB. For advice on measurements, we thank Dr. Chet Sherwood, Dr. Alexandra de Sousa, Dr. Atsushi Iriki, and Dr. Scott Fears.

Funding

John Templeton Foundation, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Anna-Greta och Holger Crafoords Stiftelse

Downloads

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