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Table 2 Correlation (R) between CAI and Ka for several pairwise comparisons between free-living and endosymbiotic bacterial lineages. All coefficients are highly significant (non parametric correlation test of Spearman; P < 0.005).

From: Tempo and mode of early gene loss in endosymbiotic bacteria from insects

Pairwise comparisons

R

Eco-Ype

-0.491

Eco-Stm

-0.447

Bfl-Wgl

-0.374

BAp-BSg

-0.361

BAp-BBp

-0.387

BSg-BBp

-0.400