Figure 1

Log-likelihood of evolutionary distance. (a) Likelihood as function of K2P distance. The distance is estimated by maximising the likelihood of the alignment with the bias of transitions to transversions, kappa, held fixed. (b) Likelihood as a function of distance and kappa. Both the distance and kappa are optimised simultaneously. The maximum likelihood peaks are marked with *. The two sequences used are the coding regions of Tamarin eosinophil-derived neurotoxin (Acc. No.: U24099) and human eosinophil cationic gene (Acc. No: NM_002935).