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Table 1 Proportions of individual genes in each category that are found to be rapidly evolving in any of the codeml analyses

From: Analyses of expressed sequence tags in Neurosporareveal rapid evolution of genes associated with the early stages of sexual reproduction in fungi

Gene category

Number of genes

Rapidly evolving genes

  

Total

Global

Branch specific

   

Neurospora

N. intermedia

N. crassa

N. discreta

N. tetrasperma

Total

988

204

164

49

41

135

21

Sexual

99

26

19

7

4

22

1

Constitutive

627

112

94

25

22

72

13

Vegetative

94

15

9

2

2

11

1

n/ab

168

51

42

15

13

30

6

  1. b genes for which data from the microarray analysis is lacking.
  2. Both total number and the distribution of these genes in the global ratio model and all separate branches is shown.