Characterization of the bovine pseudoautosomal boundary: Documenting the evolutionary history of mammalian sex chromosomes

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Table 1.

Gonosomal versus autosomal nucleotide composition and repeat content in humans and bovines

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Table 1.

aAverage proportion of guanosine plus cytosine residues in 100-kb windows.

bAverage proportion of CpG dinucleotides in 100-kb windows.

cRatio between observed proportion of CpG dinucleotides and expected proportion computed as the product of the frequency of C and G residues.

dAverage number of CpG islands per kilobase.

eAverage number of repetitive elements per kilobase for corresponding classes.

fAverage across autosomes.

gNumber of corresponding stratum on human X chromosome.

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  1. Genome Res. 18: 1884-1895

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