Number of Avian Microsatellites in the GenBank 93 Database
| Motif | Size class (bp) | Total | |||||
| 20–23 | 24–27 | 28–31 | 32–35 | 36–39 | ⩾40 | ||
| A | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 26 | ||
| AGG | 9 | 4 | 2 | 15 | |||
| AC | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | |
| CCG | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |||
| AAAC | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||
| AAAT | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | ||
| AGC | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||
| AT | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| ACC | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||
| AAAG | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| AAG | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| AGGG | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| AAGG | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| AAT | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| ACAG | 2 | 2 | |||||
| ACCT | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| ACGG | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| AG | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| C | 2 | 2 | |||||
| AAC | 1 | 1 | |||||
| ACG | 1 | 1 | |||||
| ACGC | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Mononucleotide | 15 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 |
| Dinucleotide | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16 |
| Trinucleotide | 24 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
| Tetranucleotide | 19 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 31 |
| Total | 66 | 26 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 117 |
[i] One hundred eight of the repeats were from domestic chicken, four were from quail, (Coturnix coturnix), three were from ducks (Anas sp.), one was from turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and one was from pigeon (Columba livia).