Table 1.
Some Examples of Genomes Where There Is a Large Difference between the Average and the Mode.
| Organism | CDSa | G + Cb | G + C3c | Averaged | Moded | Difference |
| Synechococcus elongatus PCC 6301 | 2525 | 55.8 | 58.4 | 45.5 | 65.2 | 19.6 |
| Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. nucleatum ATCC 25586 | 2075 | 27.4 | 12.5 | 66.5 | 83.1 | 16.6 |
| Ureaplasma urealyticum serovar 7 | 681 | 26.0 | 12.0 | 62.3 | 78.6 | 16.3 |
| Methanosphaera stadtmanae DSM 3091 | 1523 | 29.1 | 13.5 | 51.1 | 65.5 | 14.3 |
| Pyrobaculum islandicum DSM 4184 | 1978 | 49.5 | 53.0 | 39.3 | 52.6 | 13.3 |
| Clostridium perfringens str. 13 | 2732 | 29.4 | 16.4 | 57.0 | 69.9 | 12.9 |
| Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM | 1866 | 35.2 | 25.0 | 44.4 | 56.1 | 11.7 |
| Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus COL | 2618 | 33.5 | 22.5 | 59.9 | 70.7 | 10.8 |
| Streptococcus pneumonia pneumoniae D39 | 2162 | 40.6 | 35.9 | 38.2 | 48.2 | 10.0 |
| Borrelia burgdorferi B31 | 1688 | 28.9 | 21.2 | 50.3 | 58.0 | 7.7 |
a
Number of coding sequences in genome (all replicons combined).
b
Percentage G + C for protein-encoding genes.
c
Mean G + C content for nucleotides in the third codon position.
d
Percentage of genes matching the modal or average codon usage for the entire genome of that organism.