Thus, they sequenced and assembled genome of a female bonobo named Ulindi. Then, they compared it to genomes of chimpanzees and humans. They found that bonobos and chimpanzees share 99.6% of DNA, and bonobos and humans share 98.7% of DNA, which is close to percent of DNA chimpanzees share with humans, which is also about 99%. Researchers compared genomes of two chimpanzees, bonobo, and human to test for number of shared derived alleles. They found no significant difference in number of shared derived alleles. This agrees with proposition that when Congo River formed around 2 million years ago, it created a gene flow barrier between bonobos and chimpanzees. Prior to this study, there was an estimate that less than 1% of the human genome is more closely related to either one of the genomes of two apes, than those two genomes are to each other. In order to test this, they used bonobo genome and a coalescent Markov model (HMM) approach. They found that 1.6% percent of the human genome is more closely related to bonobo genome than to chimpanzee genome. They, also, found that 1.7% of the human genome is more closely related to chimpanzee genome than to bonobo
Thus, they sequenced and assembled genome of a female bonobo named Ulindi. Then, they compared it to genomes of chimpanzees and humans. They found that bonobos and chimpanzees share 99.6% of DNA, and bonobos and humans share 98.7% of DNA, which is close to percent of DNA chimpanzees share with humans, which is also about 99%. Researchers compared genomes of two chimpanzees, bonobo, and human to test for number of shared derived alleles. They found no significant difference in number of shared derived alleles. This agrees with proposition that when Congo River formed around 2 million years ago, it created a gene flow barrier between bonobos and chimpanzees. Prior to this study, there was an estimate that less than 1% of the human genome is more closely related to either one of the genomes of two apes, than those two genomes are to each other. In order to test this, they used bonobo genome and a coalescent Markov model (HMM) approach. They found that 1.6% percent of the human genome is more closely related to bonobo genome than to chimpanzee genome. They, also, found that 1.7% of the human genome is more closely related to chimpanzee genome than to bonobo