Table 6.

Likelihood scores and parameter estimates obtained under the model selected by backward elimination for subsets of the genes located in the regions of the Listeria genome encoding putative flagellar related proteins.

			Parameter estimates
Dataset & numbered partitions	Model	ℓ	c	ω	κ
Rapidly-evolving non-flagellar genes [4 genes]	FE9	-8528.24
1. Chemotaxis regulatory protein			(c1 = 1)	ω1 = 0.0001	κ1 = 1.77
2. Chemotaxis-related sensory protein			c2 = 1.22	ω2 = 0.03	κ2 = κ1
3. Cell surface protein			c3 = 5.35	ω3 = 0.17	κ3 = κ1
4. Phage-related, similar to transglycosylase			c4 = 3.77	ω4 = 0.05	κ4 = κ1
Flagellar related genes [24 genes]	FE13	-42796.43
1. flaA gene			(c1 = 1)	ω1 = 0.017	κ1 = 1.96
2. 23 other genes			c2 = 0.14	ω2 = ω1	κ2 = κ1

Number within square brackets is the number of genes in the dataset. Parentheses indicate a model parameter with a fixed value.