Table 2.

Number of gaps, gap segments and types of gap arrangements for the different alignments

	ClustalW	Muscle	Mafft	T-coffee	SD
Alignment length	11 562	11 604	11 679	13771	1079.09
Total gaps	1803	2181	2856	21 684	9711.77
Gap segments	536	407	431	2414	979.60
One gap	236	133	94	1179	515.82
Two gaps	146	94	82	579	237.46
Three gaps	425	620	866	6449	2911.60
	TrX + ClustalW	TrX + Muscle	TrX + Mafft	TrX + Tcoffee	SD
Alignment length	11 514	11 553	11 562	11 526	22.50
Total gaps	1371	1722	1803	1479	202.50
Gap segments	166	213	232	206	27.77
One gap	0	0	0	0	0.00
Two gaps	0	0	0	0	0.00
Three gaps	457	574	601	493	67.50

Trx, TranslatorX—the back-translation approach.