Patterns of Evolutionary Constraints in Intronic and Intergenic DNA of Drosophila

Table 2.

Observed and Expected Numbers of Nucleotide Substitutions Along With Estimates for Constraint in Noncoding DNA Sequences of Three Categories, Calculated by the Two Lineage Approach Using Four-Fold Sites of Homologous Genes from D. simulans and D. melanogaster as a Standard






Substitutions per locus

DNA category
Data set
Number of loci
Base pairs per locus
Observed (SEM)
Expected (SEM)
Constraint (SEM)
Intronic Complete 91 228 16.23 (1.69) 14.86 (1.56) –0.094 (0.059)
Intronic Splice sequences omitted 91 190 13.72 (1.63) 11.75 (1.45) –0.17 (0.069)
5′ intergenic bp 1–100 77 99 5.43 (0.36) 8.29 (0.46) 0.34 (0.053)
bp 101–200 73 98 5.58 (0.45) 7.97 (0.46) 0.30 (0.056)
bp 201–300 69 98 6.51 (0.53) 7.82 (0.49) 0.16 (0.079)
bp 301–500 66 188 13.37 (1.06) 13.86 (0.86) 0.03 (0.088)
3′ intergenic bp 1–100 42 95 5.78 (0.69) 7.29 (0.54) 0.21 (0.086)
bp 101–200 31 88 5.35 (0.77) 6.58 (0.83) 0.17 (0.14)
bp 201–300 21 92 5.91 (0.79) 6.65 (1.06) 0.093 (0.17)

bp 301–500
18
150
7.10 (1.30)
11.60 (2.13)
0.36 (0.19)

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