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Table 3 Comparison of structural divergence of duplicated genes between the NBS-LRR gene family and all duplicate gene pairs

From: Different patterns of gene structure divergence following gene duplication in Arabidopsis

Measure for structural divergence

NBS-LRR gene family mean

Population mean

t-test

P-value

Difference in coding-region lengths

119.7

76.0

2.862

4.984 × 10-3

Difference in average exon lengths

255.8

164.8

2.902

4.434 × 10-3

Number of indels

12.3

7.0

9.410

5.367 × 10-16

Maximum indel length

93.9

51.6

3.336

1.139 × 10-3