Table 4 The taxonomic distribution of nonsense codons in the GAU sequence among mitochondrial genomes

Metazoa/Protostomia

Arthropoda

1

18

4

57

22

1

4

3

4

5

87

2

1

86

2

1

11

Annelida

1

2

2

5

1

4

Brachiopoda

1

2

3

1

2

Bryozoa

1

1

1

Chaetognatha

1

1

2

1

1

Entoprocta

1

1

1

1

2

Echiura

1

1

1

Mollusca

3

9

8

13

4

1

1

3

2

3

27

1

2

3

12

1

18

Priapulida

1

1

1

Onychophora

2

1

1

2

Metazoa/Deuterostomia

Chordata

11

76

798

1

751

92

36

3

1

1

4

824

20

12

1

16

8

Echinodermata

6

9

1

16

8

8

Hemichordata

1

1

2

2

Xenoturbellida

1

1

1

Metazoa/Pseudocoelomata

Nematoda

3

4

1

6

1

1

4

4

Metazoa/Acoelomata

Platyhelminthes

11

1

14

1

18

1

2

3

1

7

12

1

6

Metazoa/Cnidaria

Cnidaria

2

26

6

22

27

1

Metazoa (other)

Placozoa

1

2

3

3

Porifera

2

1

17

1

1

20

1

1

19

Fungi/Dikarya

Ascomycota

3

1

14

2

1

4

1

16

1

1

2

10

7

Fungi/Dikarya

Basidiomycota

1

1

2

4

1

5

Fungi

Blastocladiomycota

1

1

1

1

Fungi

Chytridiomycota

3

3

4

1

1

6

Viridiplantae

Chlorophyta

3

3

1

3

2

1

5

Streptophyta

15

4

17

2

18

1

Protists/stramenopiles

Bacillariophyta

1

1

1

Phaeophyceae

2

3

5

2

3

Eukaryota (other)

Eukaryota (other)

2

1

7

12

8

1

5

8

2

1

4

11

4

Total without STOP codons

4

223

90

Total with STOP codons

1229

1010

1143