Functional divergence of the NIP III subgroup proteins involved altered selective constraints and positive selection

Table 1 4DTv distance (D_4DTv) between paralogous NIP2 genes in monocot and dicot plants

Species	Gene pair	D_4DTvvalue	Species	Gene pair	D_4DTvvalue
O. sativa	OsNIP2;1/OsNIP2;2	0.319	Z. mays	ZmNIP2;1/ZmNIP2;2	0.260
T. aestivum	TaNIP2;1/TaNIP2;2	0.309		ZmNIP2;1/ZmNIP2;3	0.313
H. vulgare	HvNIP2;1/HvNIP2;2	0.403		ZmNIP2;2/ZmNIP2;3	0.128
B. distachyon	BdNIP2;1/BdNIP2;2	0.366	G. max	GmNIP2;1/GmNIP2;2	0.087
P. virgatum	PvNIP2;1/PvNIP2;2	0.299	C. sativus	CsNIP2;1/CsNIP2;2	0.441
S. bicolor	SbNIP2;1/SbNIP2;2	0.260

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