Table 4.

Association of TAS with ecological features of prokaryotes

Group 1/Group 2	Group 1 median	Group 2 median	T-test p-value
Residuals after scaling by genome size
Archaea/Bacteria	0.39	0.00	0.0001
(hyper)thermophiles/meso- & psychrophiles	0.34	0.05	0.0005
Terrestrial & multi-environmental/other	-0.01	0.05	0.0022
Residuals after scaling by genome size and adjustment by taxonomy
(hyper)thermophiles/meso- & psychrophiles	0.16	-0.01	0.0592
Terrestrial & multi-environmental/other	-0.05	0.00	0.0157
Residuals after scaling by genome size and adjustment by temperature
Archaea/Bacteria	0.22	-0.01	0.0133
Terrestrial & multi-environmental/other	-0.05	0.00	0.0180
Residuals after scaling by genome size and adjustment by environment
Archaea/Bacteria	0.30	-0.01	0.0003
(hyper)thermophiles/meso- & psychrophiles	0.25	-0.01	0.0016

Bold type highlights p-values significant at the 0.05 level.