Table 1.
Distribution and recurrence of mutations in the 84 goat mtDNA sequences
| CONTROL | CODING | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D-loop | rRNA | tRNA | mRNA | |
| Length in base pairsa | 1213 | 2529 | 1513 | 11370 |
| Invariable sites | 984 | 2456 | 1467 | 10715 |
| No. of variable sites | 229 | 73 | 46 | 655 |
| Proportion of variable sites | 0.233 | 0.030 | 0.031 | 0.061 |
| Sites with a single hit | 96 | 50 | 36 | 470 |
| Sites with two hits | 25 | 10 | 4 | 51 |
| Sites with three or more hits | 108 | 13 | 6 | 134 |
| Transitions | 221 | 70 | 45 | 627 |
| Transversions | 12 | 3 | 1 | 28 |
| Transition/Transversion ratio | 18.4 | 23.3 | 45.0 | 22.4 |
aLengths of protein-coding genes were readjusted and extended by considering the overlapping segments. Regarding the tRNA loci, the overlapping portions were counted only once