Table 1.

Substitution Rates per Nucleotide per Year for Eight Partitions of Complete mtDNA Genome of African Apes and Humans Obtained from ML Estimates

Partition	Substitution per Nucleotide per Year	α ± SE	κ ± SE
Control region: HVS-I	1.64273 × 10−7	0.245342±0.023473	45.94799±6.673706
Control region: HVS-II	2.29640 × 10−7	0.106975±0.015081	55.97029±9.681416
Control region: Remaining	1.54555 × 10−8	0.299924±0.056206	16.29045±3.316819
Protein-coding genes: 1st + 2nd positions of codon	8.87640 × 10−9	0.161436±0.010437	54.34843±2.969624
Protein-coding genes: 3rd position of the codon	1.92596 × 10−8	0.518065±0.054261	48.38462±26.01403
rDNA	8.19696 × 10−9	0.082107±0.008931	39.23242±13.33863
tDNA	6.91285 × 10−9	0.143719±0.022903	56.14882±39.16504
Others	2.48537 × 10−8	0.226347±0.096673	9.106106±4.281547