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. 2019 Jan 7;20:5. doi: 10.1186/s13059-018-1613-z

Table 4.

Pearson correlation coefficients and their statistical significance between dN/dS for different substitution categories and body mass for genes with low and high GC content, and for genes located in microchromosomes or macrochromosomes. Significant correlations are highlighted in italics

Total GC-conservative S-to-W W-to-S
R p value R p value R p value R p value
High GC content 0.03 8.54 × 10−1 0.53 1.22 × 10 −4 − 0.21 1.53 × 10−1 0.25 9.43 × 10−2
Low GC content 0.13 3.83 × 10−1 0.52 1.93 × 10 −4 − 0.32 2.73 × 10 −2 0.31 3.16 × 10 −2
Microchromosomes 0.14 3.45 × 10−1 0.55 7.49 × 10 −5 − 0.26 7.79 × 10−2 0.40 5.42 × 10 −3
Macrochromosomes 0.01 9.27 × 10−1 0.47 7.65 × 10 −4 − 0.27 6.18 × 10−2 0.17 2.61 × 10−1

S-to-W: strong to weak, W-to-S: weak to strong