Late Conservation Test

Test for late conservation patterns in transcriptomic data by comparing late developmental stages to early and mid stages.

Usage

stat_late_conservation_test(phyex_set, modules, ...)

Arguments

phyex_set

A PhyloExpressionSet object

modules

A named list with elements 'early', 'mid', and 'late' containing stage indices for each developmental module

...

Additional arguments passed to stat_generic_conservation_test

Value

A ConservationTestResult object with late conservation test results

Details

The late conservation test evaluates whether later developmental stages show lower transcriptomic index values (indicating older genes) compared to earlier stages. The test computes a score based on the minimum difference between early vs. late and mid vs. late TXI values.

See also

stat_generic_conservation_test, stat_early_conservation_test

Examples

# Define developmental modules
modules <- list(early = 1:2, mid = 3:5, late = 6:7)
result <- stat_late_conservation_test(example_phyex_set_old, modules)
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