Analysis of Codon Usage Patterns in Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense through Expressed Sequence Tag Data

Table 1

The mean values and standard deviation of GC, GC1, GC2, GC3, and Nc for ribosomal protein genes, plastid-related genes, and other protein-coding genes in Alexandrium tamarense CCMP 1598 genes.

	N	GC (%)	GC1 (%)	GC2 (%)	GC3 (%)	NC
Ribosomal protein genes	74	60.41±3.74	56.01±6.66	41.93±5.53	83.28±7.37	39.99±5.98
Plastid-related genes	40	60.78±3.92	60.65±5.52	43.64±7.08	78.05±7.77	42.17±5.71
Other protein-coding genes	4170	61.98±4.56	62.28±6.73	45.70±6.83	77.96±8.15	43.64±6.90