Table 1.
Species | Number of young loci a (0–6.6my) | Number of old loci b (6.6–31.6my) | Ratio of young to old loci |
---|---|---|---|
Human | 40 | 568 | 0.070 |
Bonobo | 62 | 589 | 0.105 |
Chimpanzee | 50 | 362 | 0.138 |
Gorilla | 26 | 197 | 0.132 |
Orangutan | 13 | 200 | 0.065 |
Gibbon | 13 | 156 | 0.083 |
Macaque | 76 | 145 | 0.524 |
Baboonc | 171 | 633 | 0.270 |
aLoci estimated to have integrated since the human-chimp divergence, 6.6mya. Age of locus calculated using our paired LTR method with a substitution rate of 1.0x10−9 substitutions per nucleotide per year and a Jukes-Cantor correction for multiple hits.
bLoci estimated to have integrated between the human-chimp and the human-macaque divergence, 31.6mya.
cWe could not find the LTRs of most loci in the poorly assembled baboon genome and therefore dated loci using our approximate nearest neighbor method.