Figure 4

Base composition by codon position for randomized base usages. Left: permuted by positional bases, where the variability at each position is preserved, but the direction of the variability is rotated by 90 degrees around an arbitrary axis. Right: randomly chosen positional bases, where the amount of variability and the size of the correlations between axes at each position are destroyed. First position, yellow; second position, red; third position, blue; and total, green. Compare this figure with biological codon usages in Figure 2.