Supplementary material for Hassanin et al. (2000) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97 (21), 11415-11420.

Table 2.

Sequence data: 83 mammal VH sequences, exon 2,261 sites (see Fig. 3)
 

Transitions

Transversions

Codon position

A-G

C-T

A-C

A-T

C-G

G-T

Consistency index (excluding uninformative characters for parsimony) calculated for each type of substitution

First

0.365

0.615

0.427

0.569

0.403

0.509

Second

0.371

0.500

0.444

0.571

0.500

0.722

Third

0.318

0.313

0.489

0.500

0.473

0.500

Slope of saturation determined for each type of substitution

First

0.408

0.814

0.710

0.725

0.605

0.666

Second

0.595

0.700

0.469

0.735

0.700

0.949

Third

0.581

0.448

0.776

0.685

0.790

0.844