Table 1 Number of events in parsimonious scenarios depending on PARS algorithm parameters
From: Algorithms for computing parsimonious evolutionary scenarios for genome evolution, the last universal common ancestor and dominance of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of prokaryotes
Number of genes (COGs)a
g = 1
I Number of genes in LUCA 572 315 506 305 956 788 926 750 1211 1049 1179 1029
II Total gain 8661 11281 8892 11343 5812 6857 5853 6957 4461 5143 4476 5166
III Horizontal transfer (II-3166) b 5495 8115 5726 8177 2646 3691 2687 3791 1295 1977 1310 2000
IV Total loss 5121 2501 4909 2458 9944 7854 9953 7745 13695 11649 13736 11666
V Total events (II + IV) 13782 13782 13801 13801 15756 14711 15806 14702 18156 16792 18212 16832
VI Inconsistency score [g(II + IV)] 13782 13801 21568 21659 27078 27164
VII Average number of scenarios per COG 2.10 1.74 1.36 1.27 1.23 1.18
VIII Single-scenario COGs 1806 1944 2399 2518 2587 2666
IX Maximum number of scenarios 39 18 8 7 8 6
aall data are for the genome-tree topology; G stands for PARS-G algorithm and U for PARS-U algorithm bThe number of horizontal transfers was derived from the total gain number by subtracting the total number of COGs, 3166, because any COG must have emerged in one of the ancestral forms.