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Statistical significance for comparison of rates was determined by an exact test when sample sizes were insufficient and by an asymptotic test when sizes were sufficient.
Details of the maximum likelihood estimation method are presented in [ 18 ] . The profile log-likelihood functions were optimized using a numerical scheme E04 JBF from [ 19 ] ; asymptotic standard errors of the parameters were obtained by approximating second derivatives of the function at the maximum.
For large numbers of animals per group, n, the statistical power can be approximated using asymptotic theory.
Various efficient algorithms to infer gene duplications on a gene tree by comparing it to a species tree have been described (for example: by Eulenstein [ 11 ] , and by Zhang [ 12 ] ). We developed a simple algorithm (named SDI for Speciation Duplication Inference) that appears to solve this problem even more efficiently on realistic data sets, though it has an asymptotic worst-case running time that is less favorable [ 13 ] .
While their manifestations undoubtedly appear in the snatches of telephone and flatmate conversations recorded in the numerous corpora cited in the Appendix to the Grammar , their exposure is virtually asymptotic to zero.