Effects of Recombination Rate and Gene Density on Transposable Element Distributions in Arabidopsis thaliana

Table 3.

Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficients Between Element Frequency, Fraction of Coding DNA and Recombination Ratea



Total genome

Chromosome arms

Recombination rate
Fraction of coding DNAb
Recombination rate
Fraction of coding DNAb
Class I -0.005 (0.067*) -0.375*** (-0.322***) 0.127** (0.0898*) -0.187*** (-0.202***)
gypsy -0.378*** (-0.257***) -0.426*** (-0.469***) 0.060 (0.124***) -0.057 (-0.117**)
Class II -0.011 (-0.006) -0.318*** (-0.232***) 0.080* (0.021) -0.100*** (-0.155***)
CACTA -0.247*** (-0.193***) -0.271*** (-0.276***) 0.023 (0.0011) -0.074* (-0.057)
Class III 0.035 (0.09**) -0.244*** (-0.218***) 0.076* (0.037) -0.064 (-0.164***)
Fraction of coding DNA
0.099*

-0.139**

  • a Values given in parentheses are partial correlations, factoring out effects of coding fraction and recombination rate, respectively

  • b Direct correlations between coding density and TE abundance are calculated by making bins that exclude TE contributions to DNA length. Partial correlations, factoring out recombination rate effects, use the original bins for accurate estimation of recombination rates over real physical distance. Two-tailed significance

  • * , P <0.05

  • ** , P <0.01

  • *** , P <0.001

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