Table 2.
Types of patterns among conserved avoided codon pairs
| 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 |
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].