Research Article

New Insights on the Evolutionary History of Aphids and Their Primary Endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola

Table 1

Relative rate tests for the 338 concatenated protein-coding genes shared by the four B. aphidicola strains included in this study plus E. coli a: (a) nonsynonymous sites, (b) all nucleotides, and (c) amino acids.
(a)

Taxon 1Taxon 2Taxon 3 𝐾 1 2 𝐾 1 3 𝐾 2 3 𝐾 1 3 𝐾 2 3 𝐾 0 1 / 𝐾 0 2

BApBSgEco0.1520.3390.348−0.0090.89
BApBBpEco0.3190.3390.395−0.0560.70
BApBCcEco0.3800.3390.494−0.1550.42
BSgBBpEco0.3190.3480.395−0.0470.74
BSgBCcEco0.3770.3480.494−0.1460.44
BBpBCcEco0.3920.3950.494−0.0990.60

(b)

Taxon 1Taxon 2Taxon 3 𝐾 1 2 𝐾 1 3 𝐾 2 3 𝐾 1 3 𝐾 2 3 𝐾 0 1 / 𝐾 0 2

BApBSgEco0.2420.6170.630−0.0130.89
BApBBpEco0.4210.6170.685−0.0680.72
BApBCcEco0.4520.6170.791−0.1740.50
BSgBBpEco0.4170.630.685−0.0550.77
BSgBCcEco0.4450.630.791−0.1610.47
BBpBCcEco0.4630.6850.791−0.1060.62

(c)

Taxon 1Taxon 2Taxon 3 𝐾 1 2 𝐾 1 3 𝐾 2 3 𝐾 1 3 𝐾 2 3 𝐾 0 1 / 𝐾 0 2

BApBSgEco0.3500.8140.842−0.0280.85
BApBBpEco0.8450.8141.001−0.1870.64
BApBCcEco1.1260.8141.410−0.5960.30
BSgBBpEco0.8500.8421.001−0.1590.68
BSgBCcEco1.1800.8421.410−0.5680.33
BBpBCcEco1.1861.0011.410−0.4090.48

a In each test, taxa 1 and 2 represent B. aphidicola strains, taxon 3 represents E. coli, and taxon 0 represents the last common ancestor of taxa 1 and 2.
𝐾 𝑖 𝑗 is the estimate of substitutions per site between taxon 𝑖 and taxon 𝑗 .