Characterization of Evolutionary Rates and Constraints in Three Mammalian Genomes

Table 1.

Rates of Small Insertions and Deletions and Neutral Point Substitutions




Human + ancestral rodent branch

Mouse branch

Rat branch

Total

Mouse/rat
Nucleotide subs per site 0.457 0.095 0.101 0.653 0.941
Microdeletions per site n/a 0.00277 0.00336 n/a 0.824
Microinsertions per site n/a 0.00184 0.00167 n/a 1.102
Ins/Del n/a 0.664 0.497 n/a 1.336
Ins + Del 0.023 0.00461 0.00503 0.033 0.963
(Ins + Del)/Subs
0.051
0.049
0.050
0.050
0.974

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