Table 1.

Pair-Wise Correlations (above the Diagonal) and Partial Correlations (below the Diagonal) between the Six Genomic Features Used as Candidate Explanatory Variables for Variation in Nucleotide Substitution Rate.

	Recombination Rate	GC Content	Gene Density	Repeat Density	CGI Coverage	Distance to Telomere
Recombination rate	—	0.60	0.46	−0.37	0.30	−0.30
GC content	0.40	—	0.73	−0.57	0.52	−0.46
Gene density	0.05	0.47	—	−0.49	0.60	−0.35
Repeat density	−0.03	−0.23	−0.07	—	−0.41	0.47
CGI coverage	−0.04	0.10	0.37	−0.12	—	−0.29
Distance to telomere	−0.02	−0.18	0.01	0.28	0.03	—

Note.—Values significant at a P value threshold of 0.001 are underlined.