Table 1

Summary of parameters used in simulations of noncoding sequence evolution.

Parameter
Value
Source
Refs.

Sequence length
10 Kb
D. mel
this work (Fig. 1)
AT : GC
60 : 40
Drosophila spp.
this work, [31,55]
Transition / Transversion Bias
2
Drosophila spp.
[25,56]
Substitution model
HKY85
-
[54]
Point substitutions : Indels
10 : 1
Drosophila spp.
[22,23,25]
Indel spectrum
-
D. mel
[57]
Median constrained block length
18 bp
D. mel vs. D. vir
[25]
Mean density of constrained blocks
0.2
D. mel vs. D. vir
[25]

Pollard et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2004 5:6   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-5-6