Table 1

Testing for gene clustering within spruce chromosomes using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics (D_n and D*_n).

Chromosome

Number of mapped genes

Chromosome length (cM)

D_n

D*_n

P

1

166

180.6

0.0990

1.2812

≤ 0.01

2

177

185.3

0.0444

0.5948

> 0.15

3

145

172.6

0.1483

1.7946

≤ 0.01

4

134

168.3

0.1286

1.4967

≤ 0.01

5

149

167.1

0.0490

0.6013

> 0.15

6

141

180.3

0.1373

1.6451

≤ 0.01

7

160

204.5

0.0961

1.2207

≤ 0.01

8

173

157.4

0.0774

1.0226

≤ 0.02

9

142

145.8

0.0914

1.0953

≤ 0.01

10

136

120.4

0.1208

1.4219

≤ 0.01

11

143

171.2

0.0933

1.1219

< 0.01

12

135

131.7

0.1032

1.2051

≤ 0.01

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