Natural selection on gene function drives the evolution of LTR retrotransposon families in the rice genome

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Figure 3.
Figure 3.

The strength and direction of the correlations between the average insertion date of the LTR retrotransposon families in rice and Ts:Tv (A), the proportion of premature stop codons within each family (B), πs (C), and πns (D), presented for each gene analyzed of each superfamily. Standard errors around the mean are represented by 95% confidence intervals, estimated from the jackknife procedure. (*) The correlation was significant at the P < 0.05 level; (**) significance at the P < 0.005 level after Bonferroni corrections. (Black bars) gag; (light gray bars) RNase H; (dark gray bars) integrase; (open bars) reverse transcriptase.

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  1. Genome Res. 19: 243-254

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