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

Table 4.

Likelihood Ratio Test for Selection on Insertions in Intergenic DNA


Element class

α̂ (95% C.I.)a

2 ΔL

rs, model (95% C.I.)b
Class I 0.64 (0.52, 0.70) 31.1*** -0.178 (-0.124, -0.232)
Class II 0.27 (0.04, 0.42) 4.9* -0.07 (-0.01, -0.126)
Class III
0.34 (0.1, 0.49)
6.7**
-0.085 (-0.027, -0.144)
  • Significance of likelihood ratio test

  • a Maximum likelihood estimate and approximate 95% credibility interval for the estimate of α, using the χ2 approximation

  • b Mean and 95% confidence interval of the Spearman rank correlation coefficient between TE frequency and coding density from 10,000 computer simulations of random insertion using the maximum likelihood estimates of α and ν

  • * , P <0.05

  • ** , P <0.01

  • *** , P <0.001

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