Table 4 Mean pairwise alignment accuracies using correct gap costs. Mean pairwise 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 | 95.64% | 92.61% | 96.19% | 95.41% | 97.61% | 97.48% |
| Â | Std. | 1.43% | 3.47% | 1.08% | 1.98% | 0.48% | 0.64% |
|  | P-value | 1.3830 × 10-67 | 9.6503 × 10-17 | N/A | |||
Early Growth Double Length | Mean | 84.33% | 78.29% | 84.30% | 82.19% | 91.20% | 90.58% |
| Â | Std. | 2.99% | 5.50% | 2.91% | 4.95% | 1.75% | 1.51% |
|  | P-value | 9.1586 × 10-114 | 3.5959 × 10-18 | N/A | |||
Late Growth | Mean | 98.13% | 98.26% | 94.73% | 93.74% | 98.65% | 98.67% |
| Â | Std. | 0.62% | 0.62% | 3.14% | 4.05% | 0.39% | 0.44% |
|  | P-value | 5.9142 × 10-09 | 1.1169 × 10-10 | N/A | |||
Late Growth Double Length | Mean | 93.63% | 94.45% | 80.79% | 75.51% | 95.50% | 95.44% |
| Â | Std. | 1.37% | 1.47% | 4.85% | 7.91% | 1.14% | 0.95% |
|  | P-value | 2.1676 × 10-44 | 6.5523 × 10-47 | N/A | |||