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Table 4 Distribution and frequency of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) detected in different plant species

From: An overview of the Phalaenopsisorchid genome through BAC end sequence analysis

 

A. thaliana

B. napus

M. acuminata

O. sativa

P. equestris

V. vinifera

Z. mays

No. of BESs

26,068

88,825

6,376

78,427

5,506

31,907

54,960

Total sequence length (bp)

13,987,589

39,551,595

4,517,901

69,423,321

4,520,220

18,117,956

37,410,959

Mononucleotides

40.3 (878)

7.5 (320)

0.8 (6)

9.1 (696)

29.9a (284)b

6.0 (188)

7.2 (167)

Dinucleotides

13.1 (285)

36.2 (1,551)

47.7 (350)

19.9 (1,531)

34.3 (326)

28.0 (881)

15.4 (358)

Trinucleotides

21.2 (462)

20.4 (876)

20.6 (151)

28.9 (2,219)

11.0 (104)

18.7 (586)

35.7 (831)

Tetranucleotides

3.9 (84)

6.9 (294)

9.0 (66)

10.2 (783)

5.3 (50)

14.9 (467)

8.3 (193)

Pentanucleotides

15.3 (333)

21.2 (911)

13.1 (96)

21.4 (1,642)

13.5 (128)

21.4 (673)

21.6 (504)

Hexanucleotides

6.3 (137)

7.9 (338)

8.9 (65)

10.5 (804)

6.1 (58)

11.0 (347)

11.9 (276)

Total SSRs

2,179

4,290

734

7,675

950

3,142

2,329

SSR frequencyc

6.4

9.2

6.2

9

4.8

5.8

16.1

Most frequent SSR motif

A/T

AT/TA

AT/TA

CCG/CGG

A/T

AT/TA

AGC/GCT

  1. a Percentage of SSRs in each category
  2. b Number of SSRs in each category
  3. c Average estimated distance between SSRs (kb)