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. 2007 Sep 18;2:22. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-2-22

Table 4.

Percentage of occurrence of different phases of overlap in E. coli. The table includes the percentage of observed overlap longer than 4 bp in different orientations and phases and compares these empirical values with the percentages expected by the stop codon mutation hypothesis (SCM).

codirectional convergent
(123:231) (123:312) (123:123) (123:132) (123:321) (123:213)
observed 32 68 0 46 32 22
SCM 54 46 0 39 34 27