We have adopted the rhesus macaque chromosome naming system as proposed by Rogers et al., 2006. This system names the rhesus macaque chromosomes in order of decreasing size. An alternative chromosome naming system, proposed by Wienberg et al. 1992, is based on homologies between chromosomes of the human karyotype and that of Macaca fuscata.

This table summarizes the human chromosome naming system (left column), the Wienberg et al. naming system (middle column), and the Rogers et al. naming system (right column). The Rogers et al. numbering system is the one that NCBI uses for rhesus macaque RefSeq Sequence records and the Map Viewer.