The complete mitochondrial genome of the stomatopod crustacean Squilla mantis

BMC Genomics

Table 2 Nucleotide composition of Squilla mantis mitochondrial genome features. Major and minor strand genes show no significant differences in nucleotide composition.

Genome feature	Number of nucleotides	Proportion of nucleotides				%AT
		A	C	G	T
All nucleotides (major strand)	15994	0.351	0.168	0.130	0.351	70
rRNA genes (minor strand)	1760	0.464	0.193	0.135	0.208	67
AT-rich region 1 (major strand)	230	0.448	0.061	0.065	0.426	87
AT-rich region 12(major strand)	861	0.423	0.137	0.095	0.345	77
tRNA genes (major strand)	945	0.361	0.126	0.157	0.357	72
tRNA genes (minor strand)	469	0.360	0.104	0.177	0.358	72
tRNA genes (both strands)	1414	0.361	0.119	0.163	0.357	72
Unassigned nucleotides (major strand)	76	0.316	0.132	0.013	0.539	86
*Protein coding genes*
All positions	11070	0.274	0.156	0.174	0.396	67
first codon positions	3690	0.292	0.136	0.241	0.331	62
second codon positions	3690	0.187	0.208	0.162	0.444	63
third codon positions	3690	0.359	0.106	0.102	0.433	79
Majority strand protein coding genes
All positions	6966	0.278	0.182	0.163	0.377	66
first codon positions	2262	0.287	0.154	0.242	0.317	60
second codon positions	2262	0.190	0.237	0.140	0.434	62
third codon positions	2262	0.380	0.130	0.079	0.411	79
Minority strand protein coding genes
All positions	4284	0.269	0.113	0.191	0.427	70
first codon positions	1428	0.300	0.107	0.239	0.353	65
second codon positions	1428	0.182	0.162	0.195	0.460	64
third codon positions	1428	0.325	0.068	0.138	0.469	79

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