Evolution of meiotic recombination genes in maize and teosinte

BMC Genomics

Table 5 Analysis of selection patterns in coding regions of recombination genes in tropical versus temperate maize inbreds

Gene	Length (bp)	Population	N	Fu & Li D		Fu & Li F		Tajima’s D
Gene	Length (bp)	Population	N	Value	Percentile of CS-generated distribution^a	Value	Percentile of CS-generated distribution^a	Value	Percentile of CS-generated distribution^a
Dmc1	1035	Tropical	16	0.63222	39.0	0.28466	29.3	−0.70093	14.4
Dmc1		Temperate	14	1.31053	74.0	1.17209	59.4	0.15556	37.0
Mlh1	1589	Tropical	15	−0.73332	10.5	−0.79527	11.8	−0.47956	19.2
Mlh1		Temperate	11	−1.73817	2.5	−2.12577	1.8	−1.87333	1.7
Mre11A	2121	Tropical	15	−1.42413	4.1	−1.40311	5.6	−0.54444	17.6
Mre11A		Temperate	14	−0.83215	9.8	−0.70233	13.8	0.01684	31.9
Mre11B	1792	Tropical	17	−2.52246	0.4	−2.82179	0.3	−1.91094	1.6
Mre11B		Temperate	14	−0.92817	9.1	−1.18564	8.4	−1.13145	8.8
Msh4	2415	Tropical	17	1.52595	76.6	1.73673	78.7	1.21920	69.6
Msh4		Temperate	14	0.37084	32.7	0.66771	38.1	0.98108	63.7
Mus81-1	1353	Tropical	13	−1.76372	2.5	−1.93612	2.8	−1.21317	7.0
Mus81-1		Temperate	14	0.78058	51.0	0.96432	55.9	0.87860	63.6
Rad51A1	1023	Tropical	16	1.46511	94.0	1.40765	80.6	0.46965	49.6
Rad51A1		Temperate	14	1.07546	70.0	1.46973	84.0	1.75287	90.0
Rad51A2	658	Tropical	17	1.46511	77.3	1.40765	66.2	1.21340	69.8
Rad51A2		Temperate	13	1.54333	83.0	1.72919	83.0	1.18039	71.9
Recq4	3528	Tropical	11	−1.30459	4.8	−1.65134	4.2	−1.47246	6.2
Recq4		Temperate	11	0.56264	41.1	0.48653	37.9	0.00246	34.2
Spo11-1	1158	Tropical	16	−1.52257	3.8	−1.65732	4.0	−1.16221	7.1
Spo11-1		Temperate	14	1.43044	80.0	1.19772	61.1	−0.09775	30.0
Spo11-2	854	Tropical	17	0.36324	29.8	0.38731	29.4	0.22491	37.5
Spo11-2		Temperate	12	−0.50395	16.0	−0.57496	16.8	−0.40399	21.2

^a Percentile relative to a distribution of test values generated by coalescent simulations (CS) assuming neutral evolution and a domestication bottleneck

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