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. 2020 Apr 27;22(6):1977–1985. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15025

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Compositional biases human mRNA vs (+)SARS‐CoV‐2.

The histogram of the compositional difference between Homo sapiens mRNAs and the SARS‐CoV‐2 genome shows a considerable counterselection for the presence of cytosine (and guanine) nucleotides. The figure plots the log2[v(i)/h(i)] ratio of the content in the virus over the content in human cytoplasmic mRNAs.