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Table 1 Dependence between nucleotide positions in sea urchin donor splice sites.

From: A method for identifying alternative or cryptic donor splice sites within gene and mRNA sequences. Comparisons among sequences from vertebrates, echinoderms and other groups

  

j

 

Consensus1

i

-3

-2

-1

+3

+4

+5

+6

Sum (S i )2

a/c

-3

-

69.52*

25.55*

9.26

18.04*

28.16*

19.43*

169.96*

A

-2

239.52*

-

61.65*

46.64*

65.36*

118.23*

88.86*

620.26*

G

-1

17.87*

153.74*

-

45.83*

90.60*

106.86*

163.67*

578.57*

A

+3

0.57

4.81

14.81

-

23.08*

92.18*

57.77*

193.22*

A

+4

26.19*

68.12*

90.26*

99.15*

-

33.43

15.2

332.35*

G

+5

34.95*

126.64*

104.82*

89.73*

94.86*

-

146.11*

597.11*

T

+6

34.68*

94.79*

162.78*

48.67*

2.77

103.4*

-

447.09*

  1. 1Positions 1 and 2 (the canonical GT site) were omitted because they were invariant.
  2. 2The sum of the χ2 values (S i ; Equation 1) is shown in the column on the left.
  3. *Indicates significant values (P < 0.001)