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Table 2 Spearman’s ρ rank correlation coefficients across phylostrata calculated for the means of the respective distributions (compare Figures 2 and 3 )

From: Phylogenetic patterns of emergence of new genes support a model of frequent de novoevolution

 

Mouse

Human

Stickleback

Zebrafish

gene length

- 0.88

- 0.90

- 0.82

- 0.93

ORF length

- 0.98

- 0.96

- 0.98

- 0.97

domain number

- 0.94

- 0.91

- 0.72

- 0.90

exon number

- 0.93

- 0.96

- 0.94

- 0.94

  1. All are significant at p < 0.01.