Table 1.

Comparison of Mean Rates of Protein Evolution (dN, dS) and Regulatory Evolution (dSM) in Orthologous and Duplicate Genes




Number of pairs

dS

dN

dSM
Orthologs between species 2,150 1.11 (0.31) 0.07 (0.06) 0.59 (0.22)
Duplicates within C. elegans 869 0.57 (0.43) 0.17 (0.15) 0.61 (0.30)
Duplicates within C. briggsae
542
0.60 (0.41)
0.22 (0.20)
0.64 (0.31)

[i] Standard errors are given in parentheses.