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From: Relationship between mRNA secondary structure and sequence variability in Chloroplast genes: possible life history implications

Figure 1

Correlation of residual length-adjusted RNA secondary structure stability (-ΔG) with that gene's most likely fits to substitution rate categories. The X-axes represent the percent of sites in 35 genes fitting four predefined rate categories with increasing average rates: 1A. M1 (average rate parameter = 0.1), 1B. M2 (average rate parameter = 0.2), 1C. M3 (average rate parameter = 0.3) and 1D. M4 (average rate parameter = 0.4), and the Y-axis represents the residual length-adjusted secondary structure stability (-ΔG) of these genes folded as RNAs. We averaged the folding stabilities over alternative structures that were within 50% optimality of the most stable structure; these average stabilities were further averaged across all seventeen species. Residuals were calculated by treating length as the independent variable and the negative of stability (-ΔG) as the dependent variable (see Methods).

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