Research Article

Patterns of Natural Selection on Mitochondrial Protein-Coding Genes in Lungless Salamanders: Relaxed Purifying Selection and Presence of Positively Selected Codon Sites in the Family Plethodontidae

Table 4

Results of branch-site model analyses in Plethodontidae.

BranchGene-2 ΔlnL ()Positively selected sites

Anad4-8.39990.00440
352
nad5-9.55270.00223
241
491

Bnad6-0.01100.916

Cnad30.00001.000

Values with italic indicate . Positively selected sites were estimated by BEB analyses for genes which positive selection was detected by LRT. Only are shown. and represent and >0.99, respectively. Branch labels were referred to as Figure 1.