FIGURE 1. Dot-plot comparison of the X-degenerate region of the chimpanzee Y chromosome (below) with the euchromatic region of the human Y chromosome (left).

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Conservation of Y-linked genes during human evolution revealed by comparative sequencing in chimpanzee

Jennifer F. Hughes, Helen Skaletsky, Tatyana Pyntikova, Patrick J. Minx, Tina Graves, Steve Rozen, Richard K. Wilson & David C. Page

Nature 437, 100-103(1 September 2005)

doi:10.1038/nature04101

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These chromosomal regions are shown schematically on the axes, where major features, including palindromes P4–P8, are indicated. Each dot within the plot represents 100% identity within a 200-bp window. Within the plot, grey shading indicates blocks of uninterrupted sequence alignment. Break points of two inversions (1.5 and 5.0 Mb) are indicated by arrows (green and red, respectively). Supplementary Fig. 1 provides a more highly annotated version of this plot, including gene and pseudogene positions. Cen, centromere.

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