highly significantP = 8.98e -15
First, as previously reported for various eukaryotes [ 63 , 64 ] most introns were inserted in phase 0 (40.2% of all introns) or phase 1 (38%), with a highly significant underrepresentation of intron insertions in phase 2 (21.8%; c 2 = 64.68, P = 8.98e -15 ; Figure 2a ).