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Despite the overall conservation, however, many species-dependent specializations are apparent, including differences in cell-type proportions, gene expression, DNA methylation and chromatin state. Few cell-type marker genes are conserved across species, revealing a short list of candidate genes and regulatory mechanisms that are responsible for conserved features of homologous cell types, such as the GABAergic chandelier cells. This consensus transcriptomic classification allows us to use patch-seq (a combination of whole-cell patch-clamp recordings, RNA sequencing and morphological characterization) to identify corticospinal Betz cells from layer 5 in non-human primates and humans, and to characterize their highly specialized physiology and anatomy. These findings highlight the robust molecular underpinnings of cell-type diversity in M1 across mammals, and point to the genes and regulatory pathways responsible for the functional identity of cell types and their species-specific adaptations.","journal":"Nature","year":2021,"id":5938,"datarank":1.0062126125779607,"base_score":6.70808408385307,"endowment":6.70808408385307,"self_citation_contribution":1.0062126125779607,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":1.0062126125779607,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":818,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.1569,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":7,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-10-06","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":38317,"name":"Nikolas L. 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