Genome

Gorilla gorilla (western gorilla) Shares a recent common ancestry with chimpanzees and humans. Lineage: Eukaryota[15558]; Metazoa[7784]; Chordata[3583]; Craniata[3548]; Vertebrata[3548]; Euteleostomi[3503]; Mammalia[873]; Eutheria[699]; Euarchontoglires[338]; Primates[190]; Haplorrhini[138]; Catarrhini[64]; Hominidae[7]; Gorilla[2]; Gorilla gorilla[1]

Gorillas diverged from the human lineage one to two million years before chimpanzees and humans diverged from one another and, within approximately the past two million years, gorillas further speciated into western (Gorilla gorilla) and eastern (Gorilla beringei) gorilla species. The genome sequence of the gorilla will enable scientists More...to better distinguish whether differences between chimpanzees and humans arose along the human or the chimpanzee evolutionary lineage. The gorilla diploid genome is organized in 23 pairs of autosomes and two sex chromosomes. Less...

Summary Sequence data:  genome assemblies: 12  (See  Genome Assembly and Annotation report) Statistics:  median total length (Mb): 3431.11  median protein count: 51641  median GC%: 40.7033 NCBI Annotation Release:  102 Publications (limited to 20 most recent records) The complete sequence and comparative analysis of ape sex chromosomes. Makova KD, et al. Nature 2024 Jun Structurally divergent and recurrently mutated regions of primate genomes. Mao Y, et al. bioRxiv 2023 Mar 7 Dynamic evolution of great ape Y chromosomes. Cechova M, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020 Oct 20 A time- and cost-effective strategy to sequence mammalian Y Chromosomes: an application to the de novo assembly of gorilla Y. Tomaszkiewicz M, et al. Genome Res 2016 Apr Long-read sequence assembly of the gorilla genome. Gordon D, et al. Science 2016 Apr 1 A mitogenomic phylogeny of living primates. Finstermeier K, et al. PLoS One 2013 Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence. Scally A, et al. Nature 2012 Mar 7 A complete sequence of the mitochondrial genome of the western lowland gorilla. Xu X, et al. Mol Biol Evol 1996 May Recent African origin of modern humans revealed by complete sequences of hominoid mitochondrial DNAs. Horai S, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995 Jan 17 Man's place in Hominoidea revealed by mitochondrial DNA genealogy. Horai S, et al. J Mol Evol 1992 Jul Comparisons of ape and human sequences that regulate mitochondrial DNA transcription and D-loop DNA synthesis. Foran DR, et al. Nucleic Acids Res 1988 Jul 11 A comparison of the small ribosomal RNA genes from the mitochondrial DNA of the great apes and humans: sequence, structure, evolution, and phylogenetic implications. Hixson JE, et al. Mol Biol Evol 1986 Jan More...  Representative (genome information for reference and representative genomes) Reference genome:   Gorilla gorilla gorilla Submitter: National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Loc Type Name RefSeq INSDC Size (Mb) GC% Protein rRNA tRNA Other RNA Gene Pseudogene master WGS - JARGGP000000000.2 3,545.83 40.5 - - - - - - Chr 1 NC_073224.2 CM055446.2 243.85 41.7 7,947 181 155 1,575 4,223 665 Chr 2 NC_086017.1 CM068950.1 215.25 39.7 4,931 1 4 1,085 2,260 433 Chr 3 NC_073227.2 CM055449.2 215.37 37.2 3,082 - 1 920 1,813 344 Chr 4 NC_073228.2 CM055450.2 195.33 41.4 5,814 - 31 1,161 2,773 429 Chr 5 NC_073229.2 CM055451.2 199.45 39.3 3,909 1 136 921 2,278 399 Chr 6 NC_073230.2 CM055452.2 170.8 40.7 3,895 - 14 887 2,042 361 Chr 7 NC_073231.2 CM055453.2 158.53 40.1 2,897 - 5 708 1,546 263 Chr 8 NC_073232.2 CM055454.2 150.8 41.2 3,486 - 3 680 1,533 263 Chr 9 NC_073233.2 CM055455.2 147.88 41.5 4,705 - 13 723 2,273 362 Chr 10 NC_073234.2 CM055456.2 154.23 40.3 4,138 - 7 775 1,948 308 Chr 11 NC_073235.2 CM055457.2 150.25 39.3 3,035 1 4 755 1,389 252 Chr 12 NC_073236.2 CM055458.2 145.91 40.9 2,636 2 4 780 1,464 246 Chr 13 NC_073237.2 CM055459.2 134.7 41.2 3,371 - 3 664 1,535 278 Chr 14 NC_073238.2 CM055460.2 132.02 39.4 1,893 1 4 629 1,139 233 Chr 15 NC_073239.2 CM055461.2 131.69 40.2 2,600 - 18 638 1,393 223 Chr 16 NC_073240.2 CM055462.2 107.92 41.4 2,605 - 10 789 1,481 285 Chr 17 NC_073241.2 CM055463.2 116.06 40.1 1,393 1 - 359 806 170 Chr 18 NC_073242.2 CM055464.2 131.35 43.3 3,638 1 24 725 1,622 211 Chr 19 NC_073243.2 CM055465.2 120.45 39.7 1,931 - 18 547 1,200 189 Chr 20 NC_073244.2 CM055466.2 80.31 45.7 4,993 - 10 701 2,049 236 Chr 21 NC_073245.2 CM055467.2 84.44 42.4 1,991 - - 474 980 129 Chr 22 NC_073246.2 CM055468.2 59.51 40.2 887 33 1 218 560 103 Chr 23 NC_086018.1 CM068951.1 54.77 45.6 2,075 16 1 290 872 117 Chr X NC_073247.2 CM055469.2 177.56 39.3 2,910 1 6 482 1,668 421 Chr Y NC_073248.2 CM055470.2 67.41 36.0 222 - - 85 309 159 MT NC_011120.1 - 0.02 43.8 13 2 22 - 37 - Chromosomes Click on chromosome name to open Genome Data Viewer External Resources CHORI BAC library Great Ape Genome Project IPBIR Primate Cytogenetics