Table 3

Results of the analysis of adaptive sequence evolution for individual branches of the invertebrate-type lysozyme tree.

Branch
Free-ratio
2-ratio




dN/dS
Bootstrap
dN/dS
2ΔL
P

A
0.089
74
3.883
2.942
0.0862
B
0.104
100
0.150
0.713
0.3985
C
0.105
100
0.097
0.004
0.9522
D
0.097
99
0.108
0.055
0.8140
E
0.076
100
0.063
0.293
0.5883
F
< 0.001
97
< 0.001
2.031
0.1541
G
0.212
79
0.229
0.642
0.4229
H
0.047
66
0.204
0.238
0.6258
I
1.454
33
0.219
0.531
0.4663
J
> 999
79
> 999
7.296
0.0069#
K
< 0.001
84
< 0.001
2.161
0.1416
L
0.041
100
0.038
2.794
0.0946
M
< 0.001
98
< 0.001
0.249
0.6180
N
3.493
87
2.572
7.653
0.0057*,#
O
0.056
100
0.044
1.831
0.1760
P
0.061
66
0.036
2.259
0.1329
Q
0.009
100
0.009
2.020
0.1552

Branch names are as depicted in Fig. 4B. For the first comparison, dN/dS rate ratios were inferred for individual branches with the free-ratio model, in which all branches were allowed to vary; the optimal model had a likelihood of ln L = -2871.29; the significance of individual branches having a dN/dS rate ratios above 1 or below 1 was assessed with non-parametric bootstrapping using 100 replicates; dN/dS rate ratios larger than 1 and with bootstrap support of more than 50 are given in bold. For the second comparison, dN/dS rate ratios were repeatedly inferred with the 2-ratio model, in which only the branch of interest was allowed to differ from the remaining branches; the significance of the individual branches to be different from the remaining branches was assessed via a likelihood ratio test comparison to the null model, in which all branches of the tree were assumed to have identical dN/dS rate ratios; the null model had a likelihood score of ln L = -2895.56; the probability P was calculated from twice the likelihood difference 2ΔL between null model and tested model; significance is indicated by * and ** for α = 0.1 and 0.05 according to the sequential Bonferroni procedure, respectively, and by # and ## for α = 0.1 and 0.05 according to the false discovery rate, respectively; bold dN/dS rate ratios indicate those that are significantly larger than 1 according to either method.

Schulenburg and Boehnisch BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008 8:114   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-114