Patterns of Evolutionary Constraints in Intronic and Intergenic DNA of Drosophila

Table 1.

Rates of Nucleotide Substitution (k) and Relative Rates of Indels (θ) in Noncoding DNA of D. simulans and D. sechellia


DNA category

No. of loci

Total no. bp

Substitutions

k

Indels

θ
Intronic 24 6302 193 0.0306 44 0.228
5′ intergenic 15 3094 85 0.0275 9 0.106
3′ intergenic
14
3159
101
0.0320
18
0.178

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