Table 3

The influence of fitness effect of the genes on the presence of tandem stop codons


Essential genes
Weak-effect genes
Total

With the tandem stop
38
97
135
Without the tandem stop
374
1,118
1,492
Total
412
1,215
1,627

χ2 = 0.621; P = 0.43.

Liang et al. Genome Biology 2005 6:R31   doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-4-r31