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. 2000 Jul;10(7):991–1000. doi: 10.1101/gr.10.7.991

Table 2.

Gamma Distribution Parameter α Estimated from Multiple Alignments

Protein familya Pfam ID α Estimate



Ribulose biphosphate carboxylase, large chain PF00016 0.21
Cytochrome b (N terminal)/b6/petB PF00032 0.22
Hemagglutinin PF00509 0.22
6-Phosphogluconate dehydrogenase PF00393 0.24
Reverse transcriptase PF00078 0.29
Class I histocompatibility antigen, domains α1 and α2 PF00129 0.29
Retroviral Vpr protein PF00522 0.31
NADH-Ubiquinone/plastoquinone oxidoreductase PF00361 0.35
 Average ± standard deviation 0.27 ± 0.05
a

The α values are given only for the largest families that allowed a reliable extrapolation.