Figure 1: The relationship between plant height and rates of molecular evolution in angiosperms. | Nature Communications

Figure 1: The relationship between plant height and rates of molecular evolution in angiosperms.

From: Taller plants have lower rates of molecular evolution

Figure 1

Differences in the logarithms of plant height and rates of molecular evolution were measured for sister pairs of angiosperm families. Regressions through zero show a significant negative association between plant height and synonymous substitution rates measured from protein-coding genes in the chloroplast genome (a), and between plant height and substitution rates in rRNA genes in the nuclear genome (b). In each panel, the best-fit line (dark grey) was estimated using linear regression through the origin, with the 95% confidence intervals around this line shown in light grey (see main text).

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