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Apes possess two sex chromosomes—the male-specific Y chromosome and the X chromosome, which is present in both males and females. The Y chromosome is crucial for male reproduction, with deletions being linked to infertility1. The X chromosome is vital for reproduction and cognition2. Variation in mating patterns and brain function among apes suggests corresponding differences in their sex chromosomes. However, owing to their repetitive nature and incomplete reference assemblies, ape sex ch...

The human Y chromosome has been notoriously difficult to sequence and assemble because of its complex repeat structure that includes long palindromes, tandem repeats and segmental duplications1–3. As a result, more than half of the Y chromosome is missing from the GRCh38 reference sequence and it remains the last human chromosome to be finished4,5. Here, the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium presents the complete 62,460,029-base-pair sequence of a human Y chromosome from the HG002 geno...

18) and quality trimmed by using Trimmomatic version 0.36 ( 19). Viral contigs were generated by using default settings with Vicuna version 1.1 ( 20), and a de novo consensus assembly was generated by using Viral Finishing and Annotation Toolkit (V-FAT) version 1.1 (https://www.broadinstitute.org/viral-genomics/v-fat). Read data are available from the National Center for Biotechnology Information Read Archive (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) under BioProject accession no. PRJNA661611. Phylogeneti...