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. 2009 Oct 20;10:484. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-484

Table 2.

Fisher exact tests for signal from cyanobacterial genes suggesting a red ancestry.

Group 1st hits, reds not 2nd 1st hits, reds 2nd Scaled ratio cyano:other1 P2
P. ramorum as query

Cyanobacteria 152 3

Firmicutes 68 1 1.33 0.64

Actinobacteria 120 3 0.8 0.76

Proteobacteria 166 5 0.67 0.82

P. sojaeas query

Cyanobacteria 151 4

Firmicutes 60 2 0.79 0.77

Actinobacteria 94 1 2.6 0.37

Proteobacteria 163 3 1.4 0.46

Thalassiosiraas query

Cyanobacteria 232 31

Firmicutes 51 0 NA 0.003

Actinobacteria 45 0 NA 0.006

Proteobacteria 160 2 10.3 0.00002

Phaeodactylum as query

Cyanobacteria 199 32

Firmicutes 45 1 7.3 0.014

Actinobacteria 62 1 10.1 0.002

Proteobacteria 162 4 6.44 0.00003

1Ratios are scaled to absolute number of first hits to avoid biases related to relative sizes of groups' genomic data sets.

2P values shown in bold are significant at experiment-wise a value of 0.05, adjusted to reflect multiple tests.