order · mtDNA statistics

Primates

116 species in 15 families. Every region of their mitochondrial genomes, side by side.

Group

116

species

40.6%

mean GC, whole genome

SD 2.2, range 36.3–45.7%

16,559

median genome length, bp

Range 15,467–17,534 bp

families

Regions

GC content of each region across Primates, % of A + C + G + T

Parameter

Chart

GC % of every region
Region
Whole genome	116	40.57%	2.19	0.054	36.31%Microcebus murinus	40.19%	45.68%Hylobates agilis	0.48	5.0 × 10⁻⁸
Protein-coding	116	40.61%	2.41	0.059	35.96%Microcebus murinus	40.43%	46.30%Hylobates agilis	0.46	2.2 × 10⁻⁷
All rRNA	116	41.23%	1.80	0.044	36.80%Microcebus murinus	40.92%	45.04%Hylobates lar	0.47	7.3 × 10⁻⁸
All tRNA	116	37.37%	1.66	0.044	34.04%Microcebus murinus	36.66%	41.23%Otolemur crassicaudatus	0.37	3.6 × 10⁻⁵
12S rRNA	116	42.91%	1.97	0.046	38.68%Mirza coquereli	42.80%	46.91%Cercopithecus neglectus	0.38	2.0 × 10⁻⁵
16S rRNA	116	40.22%	1.81	0.045	35.58%Microcebus murinus	40.00%	44.00%Hoolock hoolock	0.50	8.1 × 10⁻⁹
D-loop	99	42.86%	2.56	0.060	34.48%Leontopithecus chrysopygus	42.48%	50.00%Cercopithecus neglectus	0.50	1.4 × 10⁻⁷
ND1	116	41.65%	2.66	0.064	36.75%Prolemur simus	41.24%	47.70%Homo sapiens	0.44	1.0 × 10⁻⁶
ND2	116	38.33%	3.21	0.084	33.02%Microcebus murinus	37.74%	45.39%Nomascus leucogenys	0.45	4.6 × 10⁻⁷
COX1	116	42.05%	2.15	0.051	38.72%Mirza coquereli	41.82%	47.60%Hylobates lar	0.44	1.1 × 10⁻⁶
COX2	116	40.96%	2.35	0.057	36.92%Leontopithecus rosalia	40.55%	46.93%Pongo pygmaeus	0.46	2.3 × 10⁻⁷
ATP8	116	33.95%	4.68	0.138	26.09%Leontopithecus rosalia	32.85%	46.38%Pongo pygmaeus	0.42	3.2 × 10⁻⁶
ATP6	116	39.94%	2.76	0.069	34.80%Leontopithecus chrysopygus	39.57%	46.84%Hylobates pileatus	0.44	7.1 × 10⁻⁷
COX3	116	43.62%	2.07	0.047	38.65%Microcebus murinus	43.49%	50.38%Hylobates pileatus	0.41	6.2 × 10⁻⁶
ND3	116	38.92%	2.64	0.068	33.24%Ateles belzebuth	39.11%	44.06%Papio hamadryas	0.06	0.52
ND4L	116	38.06%	3.64	0.096	29.97%Saguinus labiatus	37.37%	45.79%Hylobates agilis	0.35	1.3 × 10⁻⁴
ND4	116	39.44%	2.68	0.068	33.67%Microcebus murinus	38.98%	46.01%Pongo pygmaeus	0.50	1.3 × 10⁻⁸
ND5	116	39.98%	2.70	0.068	33.61%Microcebus murinus	39.51%	46.91%Pongo pygmaeus	0.45	4.0 × 10⁻⁷
ND6	116	39.47%	2.65	0.067	33.90%Microcebus murinus	39.03%	46.48%Hylobates agilis	0.41	4.3 × 10⁻⁶
CYTB	116	42.99%	2.18	0.051	38.85%Presbytis melalophos	42.88%	47.50%Hylobates agilis	0.35	1.0 × 10⁻⁴

Families of Primates

GC content of the whole genome, % of A + C + G + T

Region

Parameter

Chart

Families of Primates

Cercopithecidae	38	41.47%	1.95	0.047	38.00%Presbytis melalophos	42.36%	43.68%Papio hamadryas	0.51	0.001
Cebidae	17	39.82%	1.17	0.029	36.88%Leontopithecus chrysopygus	40.47%	40.91%Leontocebus nigricollis	−0.15	0.57
Atelidae	9	39.32%	0.37	0.009	38.95%Ateles paniscus	39.14%	40.09%Alouatta palliata	−0.68	0.04
Lemuridae	9	38.37%	0.68	0.018	37.15%Prolemur simus	38.19%	39.13%Eulemur rubriventer	0.64	0.06
Callitrichidae	6	39.43%	1.33	0.034	37.50%Leontopithecus rosalia	39.99%	40.57%Saguinus oedipus	−0.52	0.29
Hylobatidae	6	44.89%	0.80	0.018	43.51%Symphalangus syndactylus	45.14%	45.68%Hylobates agilis	0.44	0.38
Hominidae	5	44.18%	0.90	0.020	43.40%Pan paniscus	43.80%	45.67%Pongo pygmaeus	0.09	0.88
Pitheciidae	5	39.18%	0.63	0.016	38.46%Chiropotes albinasus	39.25%	40.10%Plecturocebus donacophilus	0.02	0.97
Aotidae	4	38.74%	0.16	0.004	38.55%Aotus azarai	38.73%	38.95%Aotus lemurinus	–	–
Cheirogaleidae	4	37.36%	0.92	0.025	36.31%Microcebus murinus	37.48%	38.19%Cheirogaleus major	–	–
Lorisidae	4	40.41%	1.07	0.027	39.21%Loris tardigradus	40.36%	41.72%Perodicticus potto	–	–
Galagidae	3	41.71%	1.24	0.030	40.96%Galago moholi	41.03%	43.14%Otolemur crassicaudatus	–	–
Indriidae	3	40.14%	0.18	0.004	40.03%Propithecus verreauxi	40.05%	40.35%Propithecus diadema	–	–
Tarsiidae	2	39.08%	0.09	0.002	39.01%Cephalopachus bancanus	39.08%	39.14%Carlito syrichta	–	–
Daubentoniidae	1	41.68%	–	–	41.68%Daubentonia madagascariensis	41.68%	41.68%Daubentonia madagascariensis	–	–

Codon usage

Share of each codon in all 13 protein-coding genes, across Primates

Gene

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Every species, region by region

Each region's page lists the value of every species, with the same statistics by class, order or family and a CSV download.

Whole genome Protein-coding All rRNA All tRNA 12S rRNA 16S rRNA D-loop ND1 ND2 COX1 COX2 ATP8 ATP6 COX3 ND3 ND4L ND4 ND5 ND6 CYTB

Primates taxon page Plot GC content against GC skew All data downloads

The charts

Each chart draws the rows of the table under it, in the table's order: sort a column to reorder the chart.Chart sets its axis.
Distribution: the range (line), mean ± SD (bar), median (tick) and mean (dot). Lengths of the regions are on a log scale.
Variation: the coefficient of variation, or the SD for the skews, which vary around zero.
Lifespan r: r with its 95% confidence interval (Fisher z). Lifespan map: r of every parameter in every region at once, bold where the Benjamini–Hochberg q-value over the map is below 0.05.

What the numbers are

Species: species with the region annotated. SD is the sample standard deviation, CV = SD / mean.
Base percentages are over A + C + G + T, so GC % + AT % = 100. Skews are on the L strand as deposited in RefSeq: GC skew = (G − C) / (G + C), AT skew = (A − T) / (A + T).
Min and Max name the species with the extreme value.

Lifespan columns

r is the Pearson correlation of the parameter with log₁₀ maximum lifespan within the group (5 or more species), and p its two-tailed p-value, as on the original MitoAge. They are not corrected for multiple testing or for shared ancestry: the plot shows Benjamini–Hochberg q-values and phylogenetic contrasts.

The original site labelled the base columns with their complements, so its skews have the opposite sign. Seemethods.