Table 2.
Comparison of candidate positively selected genes (PSGs) and those not exhibiting positive selection (non-PSGs)
Category | No. of genes | No. of base pairs | Mean No. of codons | Mean p1 M8a |
Mean LRT Scoreb |
Mean dN |
Mean dS |
Mean dN/dSC |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PSGs | 1008 | 2,188,170 | 502.4 | 0.0399 | 13.67 | 0.0844 | 0.333 | 0.253 |
Non-PSGs | 5512 | 8,487,210 | 341.8 | 0.0544 | 1.35 | 0.0503 | 0.340 | 0.148 |
TOTAL | 6520 | 10,675,380 | 366.6 | 0.0521 | 3.26 | 0.0556 | 0.339 | 0.164 |
aMean percentage of codons with d N /d S ratios >1 identified by PAML model M8
bMean Likelihood Ratio Test Score comparing PAML models M7 and M8
cCalculated following Wolf et al. (2009)