The Functional Genomic Distribution of Protein Divergence in Two Animal Phyla: Coevolution, Genomic Conflict, and Constraint

Table 1.

Nematode and Mammal Protein Divergence




Mammals

Nematodes
Number of orthologs 7300 7530
Analyzed aligned sequence 10,133,025 bp 10,838,643 bp
Mean size of aligned CDS 1388.1 bp 1439.4 bp
Nonsynonymous substitution (dN)
   All sequences 0.0876 (0.103) 0.0989 (0.0800)
   Top 10% (n = 730, 753) 0.322 (0.147) 0.2707 (0.105)
   Lower 10% (n = 730, 753) 0.00332 (0.00239) 0.00154 (0.00689)
Insertion/deletion (%)
   All sequences
7.946 (13.780)
6.409 (13.876)
  • Mean values are shown for each category. Standard deviations are indicated in parentheses.

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