However, both the original factor analysis and a subsequent confirmatory factor analysis showed somewhat stronger support for the simpler model including positive and negative factors only.
Also, models including positive selection (M2a and M8) had higher log-likelihoods that those excluding positive selection (M1a and M7) (Table 5).
Third, likelihood ratio tests (LRTs) were performed using R [ 77] to compare nearly neutral and positive selection models and hence to detect clusters for which models including positive selection are significantly more likely than models that do not.
Likewise, neither of the models that include positive selection was significantly better when the tests were applied to the individual groups within each subunit (groups 1, 2, 3A, and 3B for the large subunit as well as groups 1, and 2 for the small subunit) (data not shown).
Specifically, evolutionary models that included a category of Ka/Ks > 1 in addition to either a single category of Ka/Ks < 1 or a beta distribution of Ka/Ks < 1 were not significantly more likely than models that did not include positive selection (codeml model options 2 versus 1 and options 8 versus 7, respectively, 2ΔlnL ≈ 0 for both comparisons).
Moreover, paraphrasing Müller et al. (2007), testing multiple hypotheses requires, first that the probability model include a positive prior probability of the null for each observation, second that the model includes hyperparameters for the null prior.
In addition to estimating the strength of selection along a given lineage, it is possible to ask, in a statistical sense, the degree to which a model that includes positive selection along a foreground lineage is a better fit to the data than a model in which all sites are evolving neutrally or under negative selection along all lineages.
In the model that included positive feedback regulation of Per2, newly synthesized PER1/2 enhanced Per2 transcription following transactivation by CLOCK-BMAL1 and caused the delay of the transcriptional peak.
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