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Table 2 Range of applicability. Ratios of likelihood scores for amino acid and codon based alignments for orthologs between several species pairs, where N is the number of orthologs used.

From: Empirical codon substitution matrix

 

N

Avg. PAM

Scores ratio

Homo sapiens

vs. Mus musculus

14655

17.4

1.150

vs. Gallus gallus

9272

29.3

1.060

vs. X. tropicalis

9953

39.1

1.026

vs. B. rerio

7507

43.7

1.013

Drosophila melanogaster

vs. A. gambiae

5059

57.3

.995

vs. H. sapiens

3371

77.5

.959

vs. C. elegans

2156

88.8

.945

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

vs. C. glabrata

3467

52.7

1.002

vs. A. gossypii

2909

61.4

.978

vs. H. sapiens

1187

94.1

.931

Escherichia coli

vs. E. coli strain O6

3156

2.0

1.323

vs. Salmonella typhi

2557

14.2

1.067

vs. P. aeruginosa

1234

71.6

.980

vs. B. japonicum

765

90.2

.959