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 1
Taxon 2
Taxon 3
BAp
BSg
Eco
0.152
0.339
0.348
−0.009
0.89
BAp
BBp
Eco
0.319
0.339
0.395
−0.056
0.70
BAp
BCc
Eco
0.380
0.339
0.494
−0.155
0.42
BSg
BBp
Eco
0.319
0.348
0.395
−0.047
0.74
BSg
BCc
Eco
0.377
0.348
0.494
−0.146
0.44
BBp
BCc
Eco
0.392
0.395
0.494
−0.099
0.60
(b)
Taxon 1
Taxon 2
Taxon 3
BAp
BSg
Eco
0.242
0.617
0.630
−0.013
0.89
BAp
BBp
Eco
0.421
0.617
0.685
−0.068
0.72
BAp
BCc
Eco
0.452
0.617
0.791
−0.174
0.50
BSg
BBp
Eco
0.417
0.63
0.685
−0.055
0.77
BSg
BCc
Eco
0.445
0.63
0.791
−0.161
0.47
BBp
BCc
Eco
0.463
0.685
0.791
−0.106
0.62
(c)
Taxon 1
Taxon 2
Taxon 3
BAp
BSg
Eco
0.350
0.814
0.842
−0.028
0.85
BAp
BBp
Eco
0.845
0.814
1.001
−0.187
0.64
BAp
BCc
Eco
1.126
0.814
1.410
−0.596
0.30
BSg
BBp
Eco
0.850
0.842
1.001
−0.159
0.68
BSg
BCc
Eco
1.180
0.842
1.410
−0.568
0.33
BBp
BCc
Eco
1.186
1.001
1.410
−0.409
0.48
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. is the estimate of substitutions per site between taxon and taxon .