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Table 2 Synonymous and non-synonymous substitution rates for exon 2 alleles of the seahorse MH class IIα gene

From: High intralocus variability and interlocus recombination promote immunological diversity in a minimal major histocompatibility system

Locus

Length (bp)

Samples

Alleles

dN

dS

dN/dS

Exon 2

246

101

18

0.039

0.000

∞**

Exon 2, PBS

60

101

17

0.110

0.000

∞*

Exon 2, non-PBS

186

101

11

0.018

0.000

∞*

  1. Probabilities (*< 0.05, **< 0.001, ns = not significant) are derived from a Z-test (H1 = positive selection). Peptide-binding sites (PBS) refer to the human sites, identified by crystallographic analysis [3] (Figure 4).
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BMC Ecology and Evolution

ISSN: 2730-7182

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