Microsatellites in Different Eukaryotic Genomes: Survey and Analysis

Table 11.

Contribution of Various Species to the Taxonomic Groups Studied

Taxonomic group	Number of species	Major species	Sequence lengths (%)
Primates	64	Homo sapiens	99.43

Rodentia	81	Mus musculus	73.71
		Rattus norvegicus	18.25

Mammalia	203	Bos taurus	27.26
		Sus scrofa	20.72
		Oryctolagus cuniculus	19.09
		Ovis aries	10.59
		Canis familiaris	6.62
Vertebrata	353	Gallus gallus	32.20
		Fugu rubripes	17.76
		Xenopus laevis	12.15
Arthropoda	586	Drosophila melanogaster	84.27
		Drosophila sp.	7.93

Embryophyta	1313	Arabidopsis thaliana	79.18

Fungi	1164	Schizosaccharomyces pombe	48.41

↵Only the species representing >5% of the cumulated sequence length are listed.
↵All other Drosophila species included in the analysis (159 species).

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