Figure 2

GC content versus slope of regression between potential to form OSCs and usage of a codon. A linear regression gives the line y = -0.0251x + 0.013 with R² = 0.978, indicating that GC content explains 97.8% of the variation in the correlations. Organisms in which the correlation between a codon usage and its potential to form OSCs are positively or negatively significant (p < 0.05) are given in blue, while those with non-significant correlations are given in red. The Ambush Hypothesis predicts that organisms should have significant positive correlations between the usage of a given codon and its potential to form OSCs. There are no significant positive correlations in organisms with GC content higher than 46% and only three non-significant correlations in organisms with GC content lower than 37%.