The complete mitochondrial genome of the sea spider Nymphon gracile (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida)

BMC Genomics

Table 2 Nucleotide composition and skews of Nymphon gracile mitochondrial protein-coding and ribosomal RNA genes.

Gene (+/- strand)	Proportion of nucleotides				%AT	AT skew	CG skew
	A	C	G	T
atp6 (+)	0.382	0.145	0.073	0.400	78.2	-0.023	0.328
atp8 (+)	0.510	0.116	0.000	0.374	88.4	0.154	1.000
cox1 (-)	0.263	0.123	0.169	0.446	70.8	-0.259	-0.158
cox2 (-)	0.308	0.123	0.143	0.426	73.4	-0.161	-0.077
cox3 (+)	0.373	0.150	0.120	0.357	73.0	0.021	0.108
cob (+)	0.355	0.144	0.107	0.394	74.9	-0.051	0.149
nad1 (-)	0.256	0.079	0.163	0.503	75.8	-0.326	-0.348
nad2 (-)	0.318	0.070	0.116	0.496	81.4	-0.218	-0.246
nad3 (+)	0.387	0.139	0.067	0.408	79.5	-0.025	0.352
nad4 (-)	0.256	0.075	0.136	0.533	78.9	-0.351	-0.288
nad4L (-)	0.278	0.053	0.178	0.491	76.9	-0.278	-0.538
nad5 (-)	0.247	0.080	0.133	0.540	78.7	-0.372	-0.249
nad6 (+)	0.371	0.153	0.048	0.428	80.0	-0.071	0.523
rrnl(-)	0.347	0.074	0.134	0.446	79.3	-0.125	-0.288
rrns (-)	0.350	0.078	0.167	0.405	75.5	-0.073	-0.363
total (+)	0.454	0.141	0.085	0.319	77.3	0.175	0.248

AT skew ((A%-T%)/(A%+T%)) and CG skew ((C%-G%)/(C%+G%)) according to [44]. Values from (-)strand genes in bold letters.

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