Table 1.
Variables correlated | Spearman’s ρ | P value |
ED, TI | −0.147 | 3.7 × 10−18 |
MS, TI | −0.142 | 3.9 × 10−17 |
ED/MS, TI | −0.087 | 3.2 × 10−7 |
SDm/MS, TI | −0.030 | 0.13 |
ED, evolutionary distance in gene expression level between S. cerevisiae strains; MS, mutational size measured by gene deletion; SDm, standard deviation in relative gene expression level among mutation accumulation lines; TI, gene expression trait importance.