Mutational and Selective Pressures on Codon and Amino Acid Usage in Buchnera, Endosymbiotic Bacteria of Aphids

Table 5.

Results of Factorial Correspondence Analyses on Amino Acid Usage in Buchnera and in E. coli Orthologs






Inertia

CAIEco

GC12

GC3

ATs2

Gravy

Aromo
B-aps z1 22.7 −0.43** −0.92** −0.01 0.13* 0.08 0.70**
z2 14.6 −0.19** 0.26** 0.15** −0.76** 0.74** 0.29**
B-sgr z1 24.6 −0.39** −0.94** −0.18** 0.08 0.11 0.71**
z2 15.1 −0.13* 0.27** 0.18** −0.78** 0.76** 0.29**
B-bpi z1 22.0 −0.46** −0.90** 0.07 0.01 0.16** 0.61**
z2 15.5 −0.16** 0.13* −0.12 −0.78** 0.72** 0.45**
E. coli z1 21.8 −0.56** 0.17** 0.19** −0.19** 0.06 0.38**

z2
13.4
−0.42**
−0.05
0.30**
−0.64**
0.73**
0.38**
  • Additional parameters; gravy score (level of hydrophobicity) and aromo (level of aromaticity = % Phe + Tyr + Trp). Bold values are significant at the 0.05 level (*) or at the 0.01 level (**) after Bonferroni's correction for multiple tests (k = 6); Sokal and Rohlf (2003).

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