Table 3

Relationship between gene expression, GC content and substitutions rates in both hominid's and rodent's Plasmodium parasites


Hominid lineage
Rodent lineage

Expression-dN/dS
Rho = -0.26; p = 0
Rho = -0.26; p = 0
Expression-dN
Rho = -0.13; p = 0.008
Rho = -0.15; p = 0
Expression-dS
Rho = 0.18; p = 0
Rho = 0.113; p = 0.00001
Expression-GC1
Rho = 0.28; p = 0
Rho = 0.31; p = 0
Expression-GC2
Rho = 0.37; p = 0
Rho = 0.35; p = 0
GC1-dN/dS
Rho = -0.37; p = 0
Rho = -0.38; p = 0
GC2-dN/dS
Rho = -0.43; p = 0
Rho = -0.38; p = 0

A spearman rank test was used to analyze the correlation between variables (Rho: spearman correlation coefficient; p: p-value).

Prugnolle et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008 8:223   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-223