Table 1.
Evolutionary Conservation of the AZFc amplicons on the primate Y chromosomes
| Blue | Green | Red | Yellow | Gray | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humans | ||||||
| Length | 229 kb | 315 kb | 140 kb | 678 kb | 115 kb | |
| Autosome with Homologya | - | 8 (60 kb, 80%) 7 (21 kb, 80%) | 3 (120 kb, 85%) | 15 (112 kb, 95%) | 1b (104 kb, 96%) | 1 (92 kb, 96%) |
| Great Apes | ||||||
| Bonobo | + | + | + | + | - | - |
| Chimpanzee | + | + | + | + | - | - |
| Gorilla | + | + | + | - | - | - |
| Orangutan | + | + | + | - | - | - |
| Old World Monkeys | ||||||
| Rhesus Macaque | + | + | + | - | - | - |
| Pig-tail Macaque | ? | + | + | - | - | - |
| New World Monkeys | ||||||
| Spider Monkey | + | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marmoset | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Capuchin | + | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prosimians | ||||||
| Galago | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lemur | - | - | - | - | - | - |
a. The locations of the autosomal homologous regions within the amplicons are indicated in Figure 2A. The length and degree of homology are listed inside the parenthesis.
b. Several other autosomes also contain shorter segments of 96% homology with the same region.