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Table 2 Types of patterns among conserved avoided codon pairs

From: Preferred and avoided codon pairs in three domains of life

avoided pattern

% among avoided pairs

the effect is stronger in ORFeome (%)

the effect is stronger in whole genome (%)

type 1A

nnUAnn

33.8

75.7

24.3

type 2A

nnGnnC

13.6

100.0

0.0

type 3A

nnCGCn

8.7

77.8

22.2

type 4A

(G/C)UCCnn

6.8

100.0

0.0

type 5A

nnCnnA

6.3

69.2

30.8

type 6A

UUCGnn

3.9

75.0

25.0

type 7A

nnGGnn

3.9

100.0

0.0

type 8A

mononucleotide repeats

3.9

100.0

0.0

type 9A

nCAUAn

1.9

100.0

0.0

  1. The percentage of codon pairs of the corresponding pattern among all conserved avoided codon pairs is shown. For specific codon pairs of each type see [additional file 4].