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

Table 5 Phylogenetic specificity of the genes in each gene category

Phylogenetic class¹		Sexual	Constitutive	Vegetative
Neurospora orphans	Obs	100***	656	54
	Exp	67.3	664.7	77.9
Pezizomycotina-specific	Obs	206**	1771***	117
	Exp	174.1	1718.5	201.4
Ascomycota core	Obs	6	91	9
	Exp	8.8	87.0	10.2
Dikarya core	Obs	68	582	73
	Exp	60.1	593.3	69.5
Eukaryote/Prokaryote core	Obs	77	1448	290***
	Exp	150.9	1489.5	174.6
Other/unknown	Obs	17/35	90/387	17/29
	Exp	10.3/37.5	101.8/370.1	11.9/43.4

¹Phylogenetic class from Kasuga et al. [35] are defined as the level of specificity in the tree of life at which homologues of the N. crassa genes are found in genomes of other organisms.
* P <0.05, ** P <0.01, *** P <0.001: p-values for enriched classes are due to Fisher exact test with Benjamini and Hochberg multiple testing correction.

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