ATA and TGA in ascidians.

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@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ Yokobori S, Ueda T, Watanabe K.
 
 Codons AGA and AGG are read as glycine in ascidian mitochondria.
 
-[[!pmid 8381878 desc="Analysis of Halocynthia roretzi cox1 cDNA sequence suggests a different genetic code for ascidian mitochodria."]]
+[[!pmid 8381878 desc="Analysis of _Halocynthia roretzi_ Cox1 cDNA sequence suggests that in the ascidian mitochondrial genetic code, AGR code for Gly (unlike other animals), ATA for Met (like vertebrates and invertebrates) and TGA for Trp (like vertebrates and invertebrates)."]]

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@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ Nucleic Acids Res. 1993 Jul 25;21(15):3587-8.
 
 Nucleotide sequence of cytochrome oxidase (subunit III) from the mitochondrion of the tunicate Pyura stolonifera: evidence that AGR encodes glycine.
 
-[[!pmid 8393993 desc="AGR -> Gly in another tunicate"]]
+[[!pmid 8393993 desc="AGR -> Gly in another tunicate.  Protein tranlated assuming ATA -> Met and TGA -> Trp like in vertebrates and invertebrates."]]

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@@ -10,9 +10,13 @@ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/index.cgi?chapter=cgenco
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascidian_mitochondrial_code
 
  - [[Yokobori and coll, 1993|biblio/8381878]] sequenced _cox1_ in
-   _Halocynthia roretzi_ and suggested that it may use a different
-   genetic code.  The same year, [[Durrheim and coll. |biblio/8393993]] made
+   _Halocynthia roretzi_ and proposed that AGR codes for Gly.
+   The same year, [[Durrheim and coll. |biblio/8393993]] made
    the same observation on the _cox3_ sequence of _Pyura stolonifera_.
+ - [[Yokobori and coll, 1993|biblio/8381878]] also noted that
+   ATA and TGA are likely to code for M and W like in vertebtates.
+   [[Durrheim and coll. |biblio/8393993]] also translated that way,
+   but did not report it explicitely.
  - [[Delarbre and coll, 1997|biblio/9254918]] proposed an AGR -> Gly
    reassignment in amphioxus, based on a AGG/GGG polymorphism, and
    [[Spruyt and coll, 1998|biblio/9628930]] found a putative TCT (Gly) tRNA