Table 3

Number and similarity of putative orthologs between predicted proteins from chromosome 7 and proteins from the N. crassa and F. graminearum

Number of genes

N. crassa

F. graminearum

Number of proteins with orthologs

D*

Number of proteins with orthologs

D*

Within TE islands

463 (40.2%)

57 (12.3%)

0.963

49 (10.6%)

0.928

Outside of TE islands

688 (59.8%)

211 (30.7)

0.735

223 (32.4%)

0.774

Total

1,151

268

272

*Average distance of all orthologous protein pairs between the indicated species and chromosome 7; distance (D) was computed using Kimura's method. The values were significantly different (P < 0.05) based on a two-tailed Student's t test.

Thon et al. Genome Biology 2006 7:R16   doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-2-r16