Table 6.

Amino acid replacements between nine species of animals, plants, and yeasts for GPDH (above diagonal) and SOD (below diagonal)

Species	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1. D. melanogaster	—	9.2	56.2	51.3	58.8	52.6	78.2	89.2	92.3
2. Ceratitis	30.0	—	52.9	49.7	55.4	51.8	71.9	84.4	92.3
3. Human	61.0	64.8	—	4.3	8.8	55.4	80.4	84.4	89.1
4. Mouse	64.8	64.8	24.3	—	9.2	56.2	79.3	84.4	90.4
5. Rabbit	72.0	69.8	23.3	24.5	—	62.3	82.7	90.5	95.5
6. Nematode	79.9	75.3	72.1	64.0	71.0	—	81.0	93.6	103.7
7. Plant	56.2	61.8	78.7	76.4	74.2	77.5	—	83.8	91.6
8. Sch. pombe	79.9	68.9	79.9	84.6	83.4	93.6	99.2	—	91.5
9. Sac. cerevisiae	82.2	84.7	77.6	77.6	81.0	74.2	85.8	62.3	—

The numbers given are PAM values (21) per hundred sites. The taxonomy of the nine species is given in Tables 1 and 5. The plant species is Cuphea lanceolata for GPDH but Ipomoea batatas for SOD. The amino acid alignments are given in ref. 20.