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P. G. Wodehouse has delighted many readers with the names he gave to characters in his wonderful humorous novels: Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, Pongo Thistleton , and many others.
The phylogenetic group Hominidae contains the genera Gorilla, Pan (chimpanzees), Pongo, and Homo (see Figure 3, H-4A.
Previous reports indicated that the inversion of human 15q11-q13 in the chimpanzee genome occurred solely in the chimpanzee lineage, whereas humans share the ancestral state with the gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla ; GGO) and orangutan ( Pongo pygmaeus ; PPY).
0. Of 675 species with at least 20 protein-coding sequences tabulated from nuclear DNA, we excluded 53 eukaryotes and 17 bacteria on the grounds that they had alternative genetic codes (for example, Tetrahymena and Mycoplasma ), or had introns accidentally tabulated in the database as part of the coding sequence (for example, Pongo and Homo ). These were detected as an excess of termination codons greater than 1 per 20 coding sequences (that is, at least 5% more stop codons than genes).
Pongo pymaeus