TABLE 3.

Comparative analysis of the influences of transcriptional activity and variability on the evolutionary conservation index

Species	Ra	Rv	Ra|v	Rv|a	Ca	Cv	PCa	PCv
ECI
Human	0.207	−0.242	0.074	−0.146	−0.051	−29.981***	33.13	66.88
Mouse	0.245	−0.312	0.053	−0.207	2.634	−32.972***	39.58	60.42
Rat	0.233	−0.273	0.080	−0.166	3.739*	−21.267***	39.85	60.15
Fly	0.259	−0.296	0.099	−0.178	0.383	−23.521***	37.36	62.64
Plant	0.260	−0.348	0.046	−0.244	5.543**	−24.293***	40.13	59.87
Yeast	0.294	−0.196	0.248	−0.111	12.364***	−9.661***	53.78	46.22

Transcriptional activity (a) and variability (v) are the predictor variables and ECI is the response variable. See the Table 2 legend for details.