Intron losses and gains in the nematodes

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Table 4 Frequency of precise intron losses and adjacent intron losses in Caenorhabditis

Species	Intron losses	Precise losses	Genes with ≥ 2 lost introns	Adjacent pairs^a	p-value^b	p-value^c
C. angaria	2981	2866	757	643	−	0
C. japonica	918	882	166	119	−	0
C. elegans	329	314	43	26	−	10⁻⁴
C. tropicalis	279	269	25	14	0.098	0.085
C. brenneri	256	245	28	11	0.153	0.081
C. latens	41	37	3	2	0.218	0.110
C. remanei	31	30	2	2	0.387	0.361
C. sinica	166	158	17	7	0.175	0.124
C. nigoni	39	36	3	3	0.116	0.022
C. briggsae	7	7	1	1	0.250	0.097

^aThe number of adjacent pairs of intron losses
^bThe probabilities of adjacent intron losses were calculated referring to [50]
^cThe random resampling method was used to calculate the probabilities of adjacent intron losses

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