Table 2. Analysis of the spatial distribution of centromere/chromocenter: results of statistical tests.

			F-function		G-function		Correlation with flatness
Tissue	Cell type	n	D	p-value	D	p-value	tau	p-value
Rabbit embryo	8-cell stage	29	0.62	3.0 10−10	0.43	3.7 10−5	−0.27	0.04
	Blastocyst stage	41	0.50	3.4 10−9	0.34	1.2 10−4	−0.10	0.48
Rabbit mammary gland	Epithelium	79	0.74	<2.2 10−16	0.42	2.4 10−12	−0.24	0.01
Arabidopsis plantlets	Round nuclei	59	0.49	1.0 10−12	0.26	7.2 10−4	0.02	0.88
	Elongated nuclei	58	0.46	3.9 10−11	0.36	5.8 10−7	−0.04	0.69

For F- and G-functions, the table gives the statistic (D) and the p-value of the bilateral Kolmogorov-Smirnov test that was used to assess differences between observed distributions and completely random patterns. The table also gives the statistic (tau) and the p-value of the Kendall's rank correlation test that was used to assess a link between observed centromere/chromocenter spatial distributions and nucleus flatness. n: number of analyzed nuclei.