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Table 4 Types of patterns among conserved preferred codon pairs

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

preferred pattern

% among avoided pairs

the effect is stronger in ORFeome (%)

the effect is stronger in whole genome (%)

type 1P

nnGCnn

21.0

70.6

29.4

type 2P

nnCAnn

13.6

63.6

36.4

type 3P

nnUUnn

11.1

100.0

0.0

type 4P

nnUnCn

9.9

75.0

25.0

  1. The percentage of codon pairs of the corresponding pattern among all conserved preferred codon pairs is shown. For specific codon pairs of each type see [additional file 5].