The Y chromosome in primates — including humans — is evolving much more rapidly than the X chromosome, new research on six primate species suggests.
"I expect my genome to be very different to that of bacteria or insects because a lot of time has elapsed, evolutionarily speaking," study co-author Brandon Pickett, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, told Live Science."But from other primates, I expect it to be pretty similar."It's not clear exactly why the Y chromosome is evolving so rapidly.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.Scientists have previously sequenced the primate genome for all 16 representative families. The chromosomal X and Y sequences of each of the six species were also compared to the human X and Y chromosome, already sequenced in an earlier studywith the T2T method.