FIGURE 1.

Correlation of the expected number of mutations (Jukes Cantor distance) to CBCs. This figure correlates the evolutionary distances of pairwise ITS2 sequences from genus alignments to CBC frequencies. The straight line shows the robust linear regression, while the curve shows the local robust regression (lowess). While the curve and the line are fairly similar, we claim there is a real linear relation between the evolutionary distance and the CBCs mean for genus alignments. The mean differences of the lowess function and the regression line is 0 (P <0.001). The residuals reflect that the lowess function is consistently below (0, 0.5) and above (0.5, 1) the regression line.