Table 4.

Distribution of rare codons in Amphidinium minicircle protein genes.

	A. c./no.	A. c./total amino acids	% rare codons	A. o./no.	A. o./total amino acids	% rare codons
psaA	16	678	2.4	13	671	1.9
psaB	9	644	1.4	12	685	1.8
psbA	4	340	1.2	2	340	0.6
psbB	3	506	0.6	3	506	0.6
psbC	5	463	1.1	5	463	1.1
psbD	2	355	0.6	1	355	0.3
psbE	0	77	-	0	77	-
psbI	2	35	5.7	1	35	2.9
petB	4	219	0.9	2	219	0.9
petD	2	157	1.3	2	157	1.3
atpA	4	488	0.8	4	488	0.8
atpB	5	590	0.8	6	590	1.0
ORF1 (psbD/E/I)	3	73	4.1	3	73	4.1
ORF2 (petD)	5	90	5.6	5	90	5.6
ORF3 (petD)	9	150	6.0	8	150	5.3

Rare codons comprise 1.2% of all codons in the previously identified gene set.

A. c.: Amphidinium carterae, A. o.: Amphidinium operculatum.