Impact of duplicate gene copies on phylogenetic analysis and divergence time estimates in butterflies

Table 1 Tajima relative rates tests between duplicated copies of BRh and LWRh genes.

Species	L. rubidus	L. heteronea	L. helloides	L. nivalis	P. icarus	A. glandon	S. behrii	P. rapae
Gene copies (seq A/B)	BRh1/2	BRh1/2	BRh1/2	BRh1/2	BRh1/2	BRh1/2	BRh1/2	BRhV/B
Outgroup (seq C)	A. mormo	A. mormo	A. mormo	A. mormo	A. mormo	A. mormo	A. mormo	P. xuthus
N sites	1127	1126	994	1129	1115	1117	1139	1125
Unique differences seq A	101	98	80	90	112	113	97	125
Unique differences seq B	106	119	103	115	140	138	113	120
Unique differences seq C	122	125	109	123	110	112	135	115
χ² (1 d.f.)	0.12	2.03	2.89	3.05	3.11	2.49	1.22	0.10
P	0.728	0.154	0.089	0.081	0.078	0.115	0.270	0.750
Species	B. mori	A. mormo	P. xuthus	P. xuthus	P. xuthus	P. glaucus	P. glaucus	P. glaucus
Gene copies (seq A/B)	LWRh1/2	LWRh1/2	LWRh1/2	LWRh1/3	LWRh2/3	LWRh1/2	LWRh1/3	LWRh2/3
Outgroup (seq C)	M. sexta	D. plexippus	P. rapae	P. rapae	P. rapae	P. rapae	P. rapae	P. rapae
N sites	1128	1109	1137	1137	1137	1137	1137	1137
Unique differences seq A	107	97	145	114	97	156	117	90
Unique differences seq B	67	135	88	103	143	88	103	144
Unique differences seq C	114	123	116	141	105	104	145	106
χ² (1 d.f.)	9.20	6.22	13.94	0.56	8.82	18.95	0.89	12.46
P	0.002	0.0126	0.0002	0.455	0.003	0.00001	0.345	0.0004

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