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. 2016 Sep 22;11(9):e0163456. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163456

Table 1. Statistics for 248 bp fragment of MHC IIB exon 2 in corvid birds used in this study.

Cobr = American crow; Coco = carrion crow; Coma = jungle crow; Cofr = Asian rook; Gagl = Eurasian jay; Pipi = Eurasian magpie; Cycy = azure-winged magpie.

Species n Variants (total) Variants (individual) π1 π dS2 π dN3 dN / dS P-value Z-test4 P-value Z-test PBR5
Cobr 18 33 11–18 0.162 0.119 0.177 1.5 <0.0001 0.008
Coco 18 56 12–20 0.160 0.113 0.179 1.6 0.001 0.005
Coma 18 31 7–18 0.168 0.134 0.181 1.3 0.004 0.01
Cofr 3 27 8–15 0.179 0.136 0.194 1.4 0.001 0.006
Gagl 4 28 9–19 0.177 0.147 0.188 1.3 0.002 0.0015
Pipi 4 20 9–11 0.175 0.128 0.194 1.5 <0.0001 0.003
Cycy 3 18 8–12 0.188 0.151 0.201 1.3 0.001 0.008

1 nucleotide diversity

2 synonymous substitution rate

3non-synonymous substitution rate

4codon test for selection using entire fragment

5codon test for selection using the peptide binding region partition from Brown et al. [36]