Table 1.

Summaries of the Distributions of Homologous Family Size Ratios

Ratio C. elegans:yeast Drosophila:yeast Human:yeast C. elegans:Drosophila Human: Drosophila
<1:192 (16.5%)93 (14.5%)163 (22.8%)250 (18.6%)195 (7.1%)
 1:52 (0.4%)3 (0.5%)2 (0.3%)8 (0.6%)7 (0.3%)
 1:40 (0.0%)0 (0.0%)6 (0.8%)7 (0.5%)12 (0.4%)
 1:36 (1.1%)8 (1.3%)12 (1.7%)30 (2.2%)16 (0.6%)
 1:266 (11.9%)69 (10.8%)106 (14.8%)117 (8.7%)94 (3.4%)
1:1342 (61.4%)408 (63.8%)337 (47.1%)897 (66.9%)1180 (42.7%)
>1:1123 (22.1%)139 (21.7%)216 (30.2%)194 (14.5%)1386 (50.2%)
 2:164 (11.5%)74 (11.6%)79 (11.0%)101 (7.5%)489 (17.7%)
 3:115 (2.7%)20 (3.1%)33 (4.6%)19 (1.4%)265 (9.6%)
 4:15 (0.9%)5 (0.8%)10 (1.4%)9 (0.7%)136 (4.9%)
 5:12 (0.4%)5 (0.8%)6 (0.8%)5 (0.4%)78 (2.8%)
Total557   640   716   1341               2761               
Mean  1.35  1.24  1.56 1.18 2.19
Minimum 1:5 1:5  1:10  1:16 1:15
Maximum31:113:1167:3 52:153:1 
Kolmogorov-Smirnov  two-sample tests P < 0.05a P< 0.025a P < 0.001b

[i] Kolmogorov-Smirnov two-sample test of the equality of the underlying distributions with that of human:yeasta; that of human:Drosophila b.