Origins and impact of constraints in evolution of gene families

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Table 2.

Average strength of purifying selection in essential and nonessential genes, and in E-families and N-families

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Table 2.

The table shows that both essential and nonessential members of E-families are under stronger purifying selection than members of N-families. The P-values were calculated using a two-tailed t-test.

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  1. Genome Res. 16: 1529-1536

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