Table 4.
Proportion of adaptive substitutions (alpha and confidence intervals) in the GO categories (n > 50 genes) undergoing the highest adaptation (values in bold represent values found in the five GO categories with the highest alpha values in each comparison respectively).
| alpha | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Number of genes | Gene ontology category (GO) | H. annuus/H. debilis | H. annuus/H. petiolaris | H. debilis/H. petiolaris |
| All annotated genes | 11,081 (total) | 0.26 ± 0.04 | 0.29 ± 0.05 | 0.19 ± 0.09 | |
| apoptosis | 84 | GO:0006915 | 0.28 ± 0.03 | 0.3 ± 0.04 | 0.79 ± 0.03 |
| defense response to fungus | 63 | GO:0050832 | 0.33 ± 0.05 | 0.56 ± 0.03 | 1 ± 0 |
| flower development | 94 | GO:0009908 | 0.54 ± 0.04 | 0.63 ± 0.03 | 0.4 ± 0.12 |
| glycolysis | 76 | GO:0006096 | 0.83 ± 0.02 | 0.71 ± 0.02 | 0.72 ± 0.04 |
| GTP catabolic process | 103 | GO:0006184 | 0.55 ± 0.02 | 0.29 ± 0.04 | −0.14 ± 0.08 |
| ion transmembrane transport | 85 | GO:0034220 | 0.45 ± 0.03 | 0.65 ± 0.03 | −0.41 ± 0.14 |
| lipid catabolic process | 130 | GO:0016042 | 0.45 ± 0.03 | 0.52 ± 0.03 | 0.76 ± 0.02 |
| lipid metabolic process | 243 | GO:0006629 | 0.45 ± 0.03 | 0.25 ± 0.04 | 0.88 ± 0.02 |
| lipid transport | 94 | GO:0006869 | 0.58 ± 0.02 | 0.48 ± 0.02 | −0.04 ± 0.23 |
| mitosis | 79 | GO:0007067 | 0.59 ± 0.02 | 0.59 ± 0.04 | 0.64 ± 0.04 |
| response to biotic stimulus | 60 | GO:0009607 | 0.63 ± 0.02 | 0.8 ± 0.01 | 1 ± 0 |
| translational initiation | 89 | GO:0006413 | 0.67 ± 0.03 | 0.03 ± 0.06 | −0.93 ± 0.14 |
| ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process | 105 | GO:0006511 | 0.43 ± 0.06 | 0.65 ± 0.03 | 0.14 ± 0.2 |