Fig. 7
From: Novel crossover and recombination hotspots massively spread across primate genomes
Example colony shared across great apes and macaque (C184). High dynamicity encompassed the AT-TTUs, as well as the flanking sequences to each unit. The colony reached maximum complexity and size in human. It is conceivable that the pure units, AATAAT and TTATTA, emerged from unequal crossovers between sister chromatids and non-sister homologous chromosomes. It can also be predicted that AATAAT emerged before TTATTA, as the former was detectable as distantly as in macaque, whereas TTATTA was not detected in this species. Overlapping units of these units and other pure units later emerged in gorilla, chimpanzee, and human