Table 3.

Pearson correlations among chromosome attributes (n = 11)

	RR		Chromosome length		GC content		Gene density		Transposable element density		Number of tandem duplicated genes		Diversity
Chromosome length (bp)	−0.74	**
GC content (%)	0.90	***	−0.76	**
Gene density	0.94	***	−0.70	*	0.91	***
Transposable element density	−0.59	ns	0.32	ns	−0.29	ns	−0.62	*
Number of tandem duplicated genes	−0.72	*	0.53	ns	−0.70	*	−0.75	**	0.46	ns
Diversity (Global HHW)a	−0.75	**	0.61	*	−0.82	**	−0.85	***	0.41	ns	0.78	**
Divergence (Global Fst)b	0.90	***	−0.84	**	0.95	***	0.92	***	−0.40	ns	−0.79	**	−0.91	***

^aThe diversity within 6 Eucalyptus species, including E. globulus

^bDivergence between the 6 Eucalyptus species

Significance levels are: *** P < 0.001, ** P < 0.01, * P < 0.05, ns P ≥ 0.05