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Table 1 Parameters for simulating evolutionary events in gene clusters

From: Evaluation of methods for detecting conversion events in gene clusters

Event Type

Properties

Duplication

Number of duplications

Location of duplication

Length of duplicated region

Space between the original copy and the new one

Orientation of the new duplicated copy

Deletion

Number of deletions

Location of deletion

Length of deleted region

Conversion

Number of conversions

Length of the two paralogous sequences

Space between the two paralogous sequences

Relative orientation of the two paralogous sequences

Location of the two paralogous sequences

Location of converted region

Length of converted region

Direction of conversion

Small-scale mutation

HKY substitution model

Divergence rates between species

Purifying selection

Locations of elements under purifying selection

Lengths of elements

Mutation rate of elements

Other

Timing of large-scale events in each species lineage