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Correlation between ortholog substitution levels and the number of paralogs |
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| Speciesa |
Slopeb |
r2c |
Pd |
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| Human – Mouse |
-1.0 × 10-4 |
3.0 × 10-3 |
7.2 × 10-13 |
| Drosophila – Anopheles |
-8.0 × 10-4 |
5.2 × 10-3 |
9.6 × 10-10 |
| S. cerevisiae – C. albicans |
-4.7 × 10-3 |
9.8 × 10-3 |
6.0 × 10-9 |
| E. coli – Y. pestis |
-6.0 × 10-4 |
3.0 × 10-4 |
4.2 × 10-1 |
| B. subtilis – B. halodurans |
-7.0 × 10-4 |
2.0 × 10-4 |
4.9 × 10-1 |
| P. horikoshii – P. furiosis |
-2.5 × 10-3 |
1.5 × 10-3 |
1.4 × 10-1 |
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a Species for which comparisons were performed b Slope of the linear regression line (i.e. y from the equation y = mx + b) c Square of the correlation coefficient (corresponds to the fraction of variation in ortholog evolutionary rates explained by the variation in the number of paralogs) d P-value for correlation coefficient | |||
Jordan et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004 4:22 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-4-22 |
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