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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2012 Jun 28;486(7404):527–531. doi: 10.1038/nature11128

Table 1.

Bonobo genome assembly characteristics and genomic features compared with the chimpanzee genome (panTro2)

Bonobo Chimpanzee
Bases in contigs 2.7 Gb 3.0 Gb
N50 contigs 67 kb 29 kb
N50 scaffolds 9.6 Mb 9.7 Mb
Human bases covered by alignments 2.74 Gb 2.72 Gb
Lineage-specific substitutions 5.71 million 5.67 million
Indel error rate 0.14 errors kb−1 0.13 errors kb−1
Segmental duplication content (>20 kb) 77.2 Mb 76.5 Mb
Lineage-specific retrotransposon integrants 1,445 1,039

See also Supplementary Information, sections 2–4 and 6. kb, kilobase; Mb, megabase; Gb, gigabase.