The phrase "average conservation ratio" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to environmental science, resource management, or economics when discussing the efficiency or effectiveness of conservation efforts.
Example: "The average conservation ratio of the new policy indicates a significant improvement in resource management compared to previous years."
Alternatives: "mean conservation ratio" or "typical conservation ratio".
Intergenic regions are poorly conserved, with an average conservation score of 0.124, while 3' UTRs display a more elevated conservation with an average of 0.233.
In order to obtain a direct quantitative measure for the degree of AM-related conservation, we defined the conservation ratio, which represents the ratio of the averaged E-values from psiblast (as log10) between the non-mycorrhizal species, and the AM-competent species (dicots or monocots, respectively) (Additional file 14: Table S6a).
Fig. 6A (green lines) demonstrates an association between the average conservation score with the highest peak enrichment point (solid and dashed green lines for peak/trough ratios of >1.0, and >1.5 log-2 fold, respectively).
For proteins that exhibited significant differences, the E-values were averaged among the three groups, and the ratios between the log(10) of these values for C/A and C/B were calculated as a relative measure for AM-related sequence conservation (conservation ratio).
In contrast, conservation of NOPs drastically decreased along with the increasing conservation ratio.
The "conservation ratio" of a motif topology or a motif mode is the ratio of the conservation fraction over the "random conservation fraction" of topology or mode, respectively.
If the "random conservation fraction" was zero, we identified the "conservation ratio" as non-determined value (NDV).
To determine if the conservation ratio is the same for motif modes of the same topology, we calculated the conservation ratio for one million motif modes.
Thus alternative CES exons have the highest average conservation, whereas alternative non-CES exons have an average conservation similar to constitutive exons.
The relative conservation CR was then defined to be the difference between the average conservation for all instances of the kmer and the average conservation for all kmers within the set of sequences being analyzed.
