Table 1.
Genome-Wide Summary of Parameter Estimates and Their Sources.
| Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Caenorhabditis elegans | Drosophila melanogaster (The Netherlandsa) | Drosophila melanogaster (Zimbabwe) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Genes Analyzed | 3,412 | 930 | 4,950 | 563 | |
| Vg | Median | 0.101 | 0.050 | 0.097 | 0.088 |
| Interquartile range | 0.073–0.145 | 0.031–0.90 | 0.054–0.147 | 0.052–0.158 | |
| No. of individuals | 9 | 5 | 8 | 8 | |
| Ref. | Fay et al. (2004) | Denver et al. (2005) | Hutter et al. (2008) | Hutter et al. (2008) | |
| Vm | Median | 1.12 × 10−4 | 3.90 × 10−4 | 3.43 × 10−5 | |
| Interquartile range | 7.17 × 10−5–1.70 × 10−4 | 2.61 × 10−4–6.67 × 10−4 | 1.96 × 10−5–7.24 × 10−5 | ||
| No. of lines | 4 | 4 | 12 | ||
| Ref. | Landry et al. (2007) | Denver et al. (2005) | Rifkin et al. (2005) | ||
| μ | Median | 1.08 × 10−5 | |||
| Interquartile range | 3.53 × 10−6–2.51 × 10−5 | ||||
| Ref. | Kondrashov (2003) | ||||
| Ne | Point estimate | 1.06 × 106 | 1.75 × 104 | 2.6 × 106 | |
| Ref. | Lynch et al. (2008); Elyashiv et al. (2010) | Denver et al. (2005) | Andolfatto et al. (2011) | ||
aDrosophila melanogaster Vg data from the Netherlands population are used for results reported in the main text. Further analyses are presented in the supplementary material, Supplementary Material online.