Figure 3

Histograms of percent excess of selected out-of-frame codons in the 1,976 bacterial genomes analyzed for the 2–3 Markov model. The first graph shows the percent excess in the observed number of all stop codons out-of-frame. The other graphs show the percent excess for the 3 stop codons TAA, TAG and TGA; and for 3 TGN codons, TGC, TGG, and TGT. For the stop codons, only out-of-frame TGA codons have a systematic excess in the organism studied. All out-of-frame TGN codons have a systematic excess and are present out-of-frame in larger excesses than the set of all stop codons. The 5–3 Markov model gives similar results (data not shown).