Rhesus
Macaca mulatta
(J.R. Kaplan)

UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID: rheMac8
Sequencing/Assembly provider ID: Baylor College of Medicine Genome Sequencing Center
Assembly date: Nov. 2015
GenBank accession ID: GCF_000772875.2
NCBI Genome information: NCBI genome/215 (Macaca mulatta)
NCBI Assembly information: NCBI assembly/2715158 (Baylor College of Medicine Genome Sequencing Center)
BioProject information: NCBI Bioproject: 12537


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Please note the reference: Zimin AV, Cornish AS, Maudhoo MD, et al.
A new rhesus macaque assembly and annotation for next-generation sequencing analyses.
Biology Direct. 2014;9:20. doi:10.1186/1745-6150-9-20.

which describes the naming pattern for the chromosomes in this and previous assemblies.
Rhesus chromosome nomenclature
humanchimpanzeegorillaorangutanMacaMWienberg et al.Rogers et al.
rheMac8
1111111
2p+2a2a2a2a1513
2q-2b2b2b2b912
3333332
4444445
5555556
6666664
7/217/217/217/21723
8888888
999991415
1010101010109
11111111111114
12121212121211
13131313131617
14/1514/1514/1514/151477
20/2220/2220/2220/22151310
16161616162020
17171717171716
18181818181818
19191919191919
XXXXXXX
YYYYYYY

See also:

Rogers et al. reference: Rogers J, Garcia R, Shelledy W, Kaplan J, Arya A, Johnson Z, Bergstrom M, Novakowski L, Nair P, Vinson A, Newman D, Heckman G, Cameron J. An initial genetic linkage map of the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) genome using human microsatellite loci. Genomics. 2006;87:30-38. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2005.10.004.

Wienberg et al. reference: Wienberg J, Stanyon R, Jauch A, Cremer T. Homologies in human and Macaca fuscata chromosomes revealed by in situ suppression hybridization with human chromosome specific DNA libraries. Chromosoma. 1992;101:265-270. doi: 10.1007/BF00346004.