Fig. 2

Consensus sequences of the alpha satellite families identified in the Cercopithecus solatus genome. The consensus sequences were determined following the alignment of 500 randomly selected sequences for the C1 and C2 families, and the alignment of the available 109 and 112 sequences for the C3 and C4 families respectively. Each position was considered unambiguous if more than 60% of monomers had the same nucleotide at this position. A point at a position replaces a nucleotide identical to the nucleotide at the homologous position in the C1 consensus. The box shows the fixation site of the pJalpha protein, which is absent from the C3 consensus