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. 2008 Jan 29;8:33. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-33

Table 5.

Estimated Ages of Sex-Chromosome Rearrangements in the melanica and robusta Species Groups

Dating estimation methods * Calibration points
Event Ks mtDNA *Caletka and McAllister [60] Ks nuclear *Bonacum et al [88] PL * Throckmorton [46] BD *Throckmorton [46]
Fusion in the melanica group Minimum a 7.0 (5.2 – 8.9) 8.1 (5.3 – 11.1) 7.5 (5.6 – 10.7) 8.4 (2.9 – 16.5)
Maximum b 8.2 (6.1 – 10.6) 9.5 (6.3 – 13.0) 8.9 (6.5 – 12.6) 13.3 (5.4 – 20.1)
Fusion in the robusta group Minimum c 8.0 (6.1 – 9.9) 9.9 (6.7 – 13.3) 10.1 (7.0 – 13.5) 14.7 (10.9 – 19.0)
Maximum d 11.1 (8.6 – 14.1) 15.1 (11.0 – 19.5) 15.6 (11.9 – 20.0) 20.6 (17.0 – 24.6)

Note: Values in parentheses indicate the 95% confidence intervals. Superscriptsa, b, c, & d indicate respective nodes in Figure 5. Dating methods: Ks, rate of synonymous substitutions; PL, penalized likelihood; BD, Bayesian dating. See text for details on calibration points.