Geographically distant populations that show low levels of genetic divergence (some of which are more divergent from more proximate regions) suggest that past long-distance dispersal events occurred between these populations.
We also provide evidence that GroEL3 (Ct755) is more divergent from GroEL1 (Cthan) than GroEL2 (Ct604) and that this divergence was due to the fixation of amino acid replacements that modified the functional constraints in specific amino acid sites in GroEL3.
Given that archaeal and bacterial homologs shared at least 60%% sequence identity, any environmental homologs of these gene families presenting > 40%% divergence (i.e., <60 % identity) would be more divergent from its homologs than sequences from two distinct domains of life.
Though Fink's politics could not have been more divergent from those of the subject he was hired to cover, he put aside his ideological differences to cover the campaign as he saw it: in the gestures, the off-moments, and the relationships between the candidate and his supporters.
A larger FST value suggests the populations are more divergent from each other, which could reflect the effects of genetic drift or less gene flow among the populations.
At a landscape scale, frequently flooded sites were similar while rarely flooded sites were more divergent from each other, suggesting that local and regional impacts on diversity vary across the flooding gradient.
REBOV isolates were found to be more divergent from each other than from the original virus isolated in 1989, indicating polyphyletic origins and that REBOV has been circulating since, and possibly before, the initial discovery of REBOV in monkeys.
In two subjects, PL was significantly more divergent from the MRCA than BM (Subjects 31 and 32) (Figure 5C).
The CEPH Mozabite samples were not used as these were considered to be a population much more divergent from Europe than others in this region.
We also found that the percentage of mapped reads in S1 (32%) is slightly higher than that in S2 (27%), indicating that pooled plasmids in S2 may be more divergent from the reference plasmids than those in S1.
