Table 2

Estimates of the fraction of orthologous TE families that display significantly lower KS values than expected assuming vertical transmission and near-neutrality of synonymous sites

Dm-Dy

Ds-Dy

Dm-Ds

Pooled


LTR RTs

low KS

14.0

6.0

13.0

33.0

N

30

18

32

80.0

F

0.47

0.33

0.41

0.41

Non-LTR RTs

low KS

1.0

0.0

1.0

2.0

N

12

9

13

34.0

F

0.08

0.00

0.08

0.06

DNA-transposons

low KS

0.0

1.0

1.0

2.0

N

1

1

3

5.0

F

0.00

1.00

0.33

0.40

Pooled across TEs

low KS

15.0

7.0

15.0

37.0

N

43

28

48

119.0

F

0.35

0.25

0.31

0.31


Dm-Dy: between-species pairwise comparisons of insertions that belong to orthologous families from D. melanogaster and D. yakuba, and so on. Low KS: numbers of families that display a level of synonymous divergence (KS) lower than the 2.5% quantile of the distribution of KS values for the nuclear genes of the hosts. N: number of orthologous families analyzed. F: fraction of families with lower KS than expected under neutral assumptions.

Bartolomé et al. Genome Biology 2009 10:R22   doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-2-r22

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