Mitochondrial genomes and Doubly Uniparental Inheritance: new insights from Musculista senhousia sex-linked mitochondrial DNAs (Bivalvia Mytilidae)

Table 4 Genes, gene lengths and divergences in male and female Musculista senhousia protein coding genes.

Protein gene	M^aa	F^aa	pD ± SE	Ks	Ka	Ka/Ks
atp6	238	238	0.228 ± 0.026	0.894	0.156	0.17
atp8	64	45	0.302 ± 0.070	0.581	0.233	0.40
cox1	528	528	0.053 ± 0.009	0.838	0.042	0.05
cox2	230	220	0.251 ± 0.027	0.877	0.178	0.20
cox2b*	271	NA	0.279 ± 0.029*	0.653*	0.223*	0.35*
cox3	285	285	0.155 ± 0.022	0.811	0.107	0.13
cob	399	399	0.058 ± 0.012	0.346	0.034	0.10
nad1	332	331	0.218 ± 0.022	0.670	0.145	0.22
nad2	315	315	0.306 ± 0.026	0.843	0.244	0.29
nad3	125	130	0.218 ± 0.034	0.964	0.162	0.17
nad4	443	440	0.243 ± 0.020	0.931	0.175	0.19
nad4L	72	72	0.183 ± 0.045	0.626	0.107	0.17
nad5	588	583	0.274 ± 0.018	0.862	0.208	0.24
nad6	208	208	0.324 ± 0.031	0.619	0.268	0.43
all proteins	4,098	3,794		0.716	0.143	0.20

M^aa and F^aa = number of amino acids in male and female respectively.
pD = p-Distances at the amino acidic level.
Ks and Ka = divergence of protein genes in synonymous (Ks) and non synonymous (Ka) sites respectively.
SE = Standard Error.
Ka/Ks = ratio values between Ka and Ks.
*: comparisons between Mcox2 and Mcox2b genes.

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