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Table 2 Sites under positive selection according to six different methods in the three mitochondrial coding genes

From: Host species and pathogenicity effects in the evolution of the mitochondrial genomes of Eimeria species (Apicomplexa; Coccidia; Eimeriidae)

 

Site

Amino acid replacements

Aminoacid change

PAML

SLAC

REL

FEL

MEME

FUBAR

Branch-sites

COX1

3

Y; S (2, 12, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24); P (15)

x

x

177

T, A (19)

E. mitis

199

G; L (2, 6, 7, 14, 15); V (1); A (5, 10)

x

x

363

T; S (5, 9, 13, 25)

x

365

V; L (2, 6, 7, 14, 18, 21, 23, 24)

x

x

415

S; I (12)

x

457

V; I (9, 12)

x

COX3

82

S; C (3, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21); A (16)

x

135

I; V (17, 18, 19, 20)

E. mitis

145

A; S (16, 22, 24, 25)

x

208

T; V (2, 6, 7, 14, 24, 25), P (1, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14); A (4, 8); L (12)

x

x

218

S; N (3)

E. brunetti

CYTB

131

F, Y (12)

x

185

F, Y (10)

x

264

Y; N (10)

x

x

E. mitis

347

V; L (9, 11, 13, 25); A (1, 12, 21); I (3); G (10), T (15)

x

x

x

  1. List of amino acid replacements fixed within mtDNA lineages of Eimeria species (for species names see Table 1)