Recombination Has Little Effect on the Rate of Sequence Divergence in Pseudoautosomal Boundary 1 Among Humans and Great Apes

Table 1.

The Average Tamura-Nei Evolutionary Distances Between Species and the GC Contents for the PAR1 (PAR)- and X-Linked XG Sequences




Species pair

PAR

X-specific
Number of base pairs 4216 7546
T—N distance Human—bonobo 0.014 (0.010) 0.015 (0.011)
Human—gorilla 0.019 (0.013) 0.018 (0.012)
Human—orangutan 0.032 (0.023) 0.041 (0.028)
Bonobo—gorilla 0.016 (0.011) 0.016 (0.011)
Bonobo—orangutan 0.031 (0.023) 0.039 (0.027)
Gorilla—orangutan 0.034 (0.025) 0.036 (0.026)
% GC Human 45.6 (43.9) 48.4 (46.5)
Bonobo 45.3 (43.9) 48.0 (46.5)
Gorillas 45.1 (43.5) 48.5 (46.3)

Orangutan
44.2 (43.5)
47.5 (45.9)
  • Exons are excluded from the analyses. Within parentheses are the evolutionary distances estimated after excluding the CpG dinucleotides.

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