MHC Class II Pseudogene and Genomic Signature of a 32-kb Cosmid in the House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus)

Table 1.

Comparison of Nucleotide Diversity of Came–DAB1, Three Chicken Genes, and a Red-Winged Blackbird GeneAgph–DAB1

Came–DAB1 Chicken exon 2 Agph–DAB1 b
Gene exon 2 exon 3 B-LBI B-LBII B-LBIII exon 2
No. of sequences examined 9 10 12 11 3 17
Total no. of sites 260 287 270 270 270 89
No. of segregating sites(s) 25 32 138 54 41 22
Θ 9.19 11.48 44.47 18.43 22.36 6.32
Θ per site 0.04 0.04 0.17 0.07 0.08 0.07
Π 8.89 — 47.99 22.64 22.33 8.90
Nucleotide diversity (Π per site) 0.03 — 0.18 0.08 0.08 0.10
Tajima'sD −0.17 — 0.36 1.08 −0.01 1.99

  • Data from both exons 2 and 3 from Came–DAB1 are shown. Θ is calculated using the finte sites method of Tajima (1996). All relevant statistics are discussed in Methods.

  • ↵From Zoorob et al. (1993).

  • From Garrigan and Edwards (1999).

  • ↵ P < 0.03.

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