Table 1 Alignment accuracies using correct gap costs. Alignment accuracies using a gap open cost of 7 and the optimal gap extension cost of 0.57. P-values are computed using a paired Student's t-test.
Data Set | Measure | Parsimony | Ambiguous Parsimony | ML | Ambiguous ML | Ma et al. | ClustalW |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Early Growth | Mean | 88.43% | 83.83% | 87.86% | 86.26% | 91.74% | 91.25% |
| Â | Std. | 2.89% | 5.94% | 2.79% | 4.27% | 1.69% | 2.28% |
|  | P-value | 1.6461 × 10-65 | 1.1992 × 10-17 | N/A | |||
Early Growth Double Length | Mean | 64.68% | 57.24% | 63.54% | 59.89% | 74.29% | 72.35% |
| Â | Std. | 5.23% | 8.25% | 4.99% | 7.59% | 4.62% | 4.30% |
|  | P-value | 1.5922 × 10-103 | 1.9161 × 10-21 | N/A | |||
Late Growth | Mean. | 95.76% | 96.01% | 89.44% | 87.52% | 96.63% | 96.79% |
| Â | Std | 1.29% | 1.28% | 5.44% | 7.03% | 0.99% | 1.10% |
|  | P-value | 7.7818 × 10-10 | 1.0404 × 10-12 | N/A | |||
Late Growth Double Length | Mean | 86.71% | 88.12% | 64.76% | 55.67% | 89.68% | 89.54% |
| Â | Std. | 2.71% | 2.85% | 7.94% | 12.62% | 2.42% | 2.11% |
|  | P-value | 2.1699 × 10-43 | 2.5033 × 10-50 | N/A | |||