Microsatellites in Different Eukaryotic Genomes: Survey and Analysis

Table 3.

Total Lengths of Mono-, Di-, and Trinucleotide Repeats in Intergenic Regions

Repeated unit Taxonomic group
primates rodentia mammalia vertebrata arthropoda C.elegans embryophyta S.cerevisiae fungi
A 3864 1956 1868 1612 1333 252 1975 3121 2024
C 16 236 86 581 129 321 37 19 56
AC 1049 3733 2654 2070 1159 249 115 266 140
AG 327 1799 1766 294 437 353 521 57 136
AT 329 363 246 999 663 219 1077 1552 279
CG 4 33 – – – 1 2 – –
AAC 115 156 28 83 437 16 106 23 104
AAG 40 280 31 50 36 143 377 35 84
AAT 188 168 77 497 196 98 198 321 162
ACC 23 136 – 45 47 23 21 – 60
ACG – – – – 32 14 10 9 6
ACT 4 3 13 8 10 16 14 36 30
AGC 25 154 236 84 255 18 14 39 19
AGG 45 204 56 148 32 14 26 – 34
ATC 19 41 – 112 75 65 88 49 43
CCG 58 88 90 100 8 7 15 – 8

  • ↵Base pairs (bp) per megabase of DNA.

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