Figure 1.

Frequency of stop codons at the downstream codon locations following the real stop codons (which occur at codon location '0') in S. cerevisiae. (a) TAA; (b) TAG; (c) TGA. The red bars represent the frequency of stop codons at each codon location and the blue bars represent the controls - the frequency of stop codons at the corresponding locations downstream of stop codons in non-coding regions (nc). (d) Statistical significance of stop codon frequency at each location following each stop codon. For each codon location in the analysis, the statistical significance (using χ² tests) of the difference between the frequencies of tandem stop codons in the yeast genes and in the control sequences is shown. The blue bars represent codon locations following the stop codon TAA; the red bars represent codon locations following the stop codon TAG; the yellow bars represent codon locations following the stop codon TGA. (e) The identity distribution of three stop codons at the UAA+3 codon location. Blue represents the percentage of TAA; red represents TAG; yellow, TGA.