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. 2006 Aug 1;2(4):604–607. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0521

Table 3.

Summary of the main differences in the mutational pattern and nucleotide divergence between IGs and INs. See text for details.

	IGs	INs
divergence from D. simulans	IGs<INs ^*
correlation between divergence from D. simulans and recombination rate	positive ^*	no correlation
correlation between divergence from D. yakuba and recombination rate	positive ^*	no correlation
correlation between divergence along the D. melanogaster lineage and recombination rate	no correlation	no correlation
correlation between divergence along the D. simulans lineage and recombination rate	positive ^*	no correlation
GC content	IGs>INs ^*
correlation between GC content and recombination rate	negative ^*	no correlation
fraction of interspecific shared alignment	IGs>INs ^*
correlation between the fraction of interspecific shared alignment and recombination rate	negative ^*	no correlation

^{^*}

p<0.05.