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Chapter 4
Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Nucleotide Substitutions

Page 59. Example 4.1. Positive Darwinian selection at MHC loci. Data MEGA
Page 66. Example 4.2. Further analysis of MHC gene sequences. Data MEGA
Page 67. Example 4.3. and values for the mitochondrial Nd5 gene. Data MEGA
Page 68. Figure 4.2. Relationship of the numbers of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions per site to the number of substitutions observed at the 3rd codon positions or the 1st+2nd codon positions. Data MEGA

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The following are from the first printing of Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics:
Page 52, line 29. Change "numbers of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions and the num-" to "numbers of synonymous and nonsynonymous differences and the num-".
Page 55, line 1. Change Sn to "Nd"
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Page 55, line 21. Change "The Z values for the significance levels of 5, 1, 0.1 % in this case are 1.64, 1.96, and 2.81, respectively" to "The Z values for the significance levels of 5, 1, 0.1 % in this case are 1.64, 2.33, and 3.09, respectively" (because of one-tailed test).
Page 59, line 29. Change first = sign to "and".
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Page 61. Table 4.3, line 8. Change 18.06 ± 4.14 to "18.03 ± 4.13".
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Page 61. Table 4.3, line 10. Change 1.19 to "1.96".
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Page 62, lines 5-6. Change dN = 0.1806 + 0.0414 to "0.1803 + 0.0413" as corrected for Table 4.3.
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