An analysis of the gene complement of a marsupial, Monodelphis domestica: Evolution of lineage-specific genes and giant chromosomes

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Table 3.

Characteristics of one-to-one orthologs that are found on the subtelomeric regions of Monodelphis domestica chromosomes

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Table 3.

Shown are median values and, in parentheses, lower and upper quartiles. P-values are calculated using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.

aP-values were calculated using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.

bThe elevated dN/dS for TrichosurusMonodelphis orthologs is likely to be due to EST sequencing errors appearing as nonsynonymous changes. This would also explain the lower significance (higher P-value) for the decrease in subtelomeric dN/dS for these two species.

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