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

Table 3.

The Average Tamura–Nei Evolutionary Distances Between Species and the GC Contents for the Subset of the Data Set for the PAR- and X-Linked XG Sequences Where the Spider Monkey Sequence Is Available




PAR

X specific
Number of base pairs 1050 (1016) 2314 (2150)
T—N distance
   Human—bonobo 0.012 (0.005) 0.012 (0.008)
   Human—gorillas 0.013 (0.005) 0.018 (0.009)
   Human—orangutan 0.027 (0.016) 0.041 (0.026)
   Human—spider monkey 0.138 (0.112) 0.116 (0.088)
   Bonobo—gorilla 0.013 (0.006) 0.015 (0.008)
   Bonobo—orangutan 0.029 (0.017) 0.038 (0.025)
   Bonobo—spider monkey 0.138 (0.114) 0.116 (0.089)
   Gorilla—orangutan 0.026 (0.013) 0.034 (0.022)
   Gorilla—spider monkey 0.132 (0.109) 0.115 (0.087)
   Orangutan—spider monkey 0.135 (0.108) 0.113 (0.088)
% GC
   Human 47.3 (45.1) 48.7 (46.3)
   Bonobo 47.9 (45.5) 48.3 (46.2)
   Gorillas 47.8 (45.3) 48.1 (46.0)
   Orangutan 47.2 (45.4) 47.6 (45.7)
   Spider monkey
49.7 (47.1)
48.3 (46.2)
  • Exons are excluded from the analyses.

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