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. 2015 Dec 29;16:1115. doi: 10.1186/s12864-015-2342-2

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