Table 2.
A comparison of the correlations (r2 values) of mitochondrial nucleotide substitution rates (α, % substitutions per site per My) versus temperature (1/kT) and the natural logarithm of body mass (g) without correction for body mass and temperature, and after correction by using Eqs. 3 and 4
| In(α) vs. 1/kT
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In(α) vs. In(M)
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gene/genome | Uncorrected | Mass corrected | Uncorrected | Temperature corrected |
| mtDNA | 0.23 | 0.77 | 0.14 | 0.74 |
| rRNA | 0.03 | 0.46 | 0.13 | 0.48 |
| Cytochrome b | 0.13 | 0.25 | 0.09 | 0.23 |
| Cytochrome b transversions | 0.16 | 0.80 | 0.00 | 0.72 |