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Compositional properties and codon usage pattern of mitochondrial ATP gene in different classes of Arthropoda

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Codon usage bias (CUB) is defined as the usage of synonymous codons unequally for an amino acid in a gene transcript. It is influenced by both mutation pressure and natural selection and is a species-specific property. In our current study, we used bioinformatic methods to investigate the coding sequences of mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate gene (MT-ATP) in different classes of arthropoda to know the codon usage pattern of the gene as no work was described earlier. The analysis of compositional properties suggested that the gene is AT rich. The effective number of codons revealed the CUB of both ATP6 and ATP8 gene was moderate. Heat map showed that the codons ending with AT were negatively associated with GC3 while the codons ending with GC were positively associated with GC3 in all the classes of arthropoda. Correspondence study revealed that the pattern of codon usage of ATP6 and ATP8 genes differed across classes. Neutrality plot suggested the codon usage bias of these two genes in phylum arthropoda was influenced by both mutation pressure and natural selection.

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Barbhuiya, R.I., Uddin, A. & Chakraborty, S. Compositional properties and codon usage pattern of mitochondrial ATP gene in different classes of Arthropoda. Genetica 147, 231–248 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10709-019-00067-1

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