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. 2009 May 26;10:247. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-247

Table 3.

Pairwise divergences between some primate species and groups. The Kimura two-parameter model [16] was used to estimate the divergence.

Kimura two-parameter Distance (×10-2)

Marker H-C H-O H-MC H-BA H-MR H-SM H-TA H-LM HOM-OWM HOM-NWM OWM-NWM
A1 1.30 5.08 8.63 7.18 12.11 11.77 10.64 22.31 8.27 11.79 11.93
A2 0.59 2.00 2.32 2.11 4.91 4.06 5.12 9.31 2.35 4.78 4.33
A3 1.74 0.86 6.32 6.09 13.82 12.31 13.74 22.73 6.57 13.14 13.70
A4 1.96 1.97 6.82 6.14 10.80 10.23 10.39 24.50 6.83 10.94 9.60
A5 0.72 3.29 5.98 5.78 15.30 13.48 12.82 29.08 5.77 13.91 13.54
A6 2.16 4.04 8.28 8.69 17.39 15.18 15.00 34.78 7.36 14.94 16.50
X1 0.62 3.37 9.54 10.24 8.87 8.38 11.49 18.73 9.59 9.76 12.66
X2 2.34 3.64 7.25 6.66 11.24 9.97 10.55 17.71 6.40 10.38 10.97
X3 1.81 2.27 7.01 7.51 6.82 8.03 7.09 18.97 6.84 7.57 10.95
X4 2.16 5.02 9.33 8.89 10.44 11.91 12.55 21.86 8.39 11.83 14.28
Concatenated 1.53 3.24 7.29 6.88 11.22 10.60 10.81 22.07 6.92 10.90 11.80

Note. C = chimpanzee, H = human, G = gorilla, O = orangutan, BA = baboon, MC = macaque, MR = marmoset, SM = spider monkey, TA = tamarin, LM = lemur, HOM = hominoids, NWM = New World monkey, OWM = Old World monkey.