Skip to main content
. 2012 Mar 22;13:43. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-43

Table 6.

Correlation coefficients of codon usage bias with gene expression level

Dataa E. coli1 S. cerevisiae2 D. melanogaster3 C. elegans4 A. thaliana5

LB (n = 1762b) M9 (n = 2766b) (n = 5142b) (n = 1651b) (n = 12184b) (n = 1332b)
CDCc 0.433 0.367 0.654 0.460 0.374 0.228

Scaled Nc'c 0.315 0.187 0.664 0.302 0.328 0.130

Scaled Ncc 0.257 0.125 0.600 0.321 0.192 0.063

CAIc 0.443 0.288 0.675 0.386 -0.118 0.034

aExpression data were obtained from 1Bernstein et al., 2Holstege et al., 3Zhang et al., 4Roy et al., and 5Wuest et al. (see details in Additional file 1).

bNumber of genes (n).

cP < 0.0001 for all values.