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Table 4 Coding sequence (CDS) length and indel rate within the Drosophila and tephritid clades for transformer

From: Molecular evolution of Drosophila Sex-lethal and related sex determining genes

Clade

CDS Length

Indel ratea

 

Mean

Variance

Mean

Variance

Drosophila

603

4412

0.409

0.397

Tephritids

1255

132

0.258

0.062

P Value

< 0.0001

< 0.0001

0.017

< 0.0001

  1. aIndel rate was calculated for each pair of species within a clade by dividing the number of indel sites by the number of nucleotides in the pairwise alignment, then further dividing by the branch length between the two species estimated using the dsx gene.
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BMC Ecology and Evolution

ISSN: 2730-7182

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