Table 1.

Gene context of 67 Rice Mirosatellites from Four Fully-Sequenced PAC Clones Comprising 654,596 nt of Genomic DNA Sequence

SSR class Total no.SSRs in this class SSRs of this class in CDSs SSRs of this class in UTRs SSRs of this class in introns SSRs of this class in intergenic spaces
no. % no. % no. % no. %
(AT)n1400.000.0321.41178.6
(GA)n1317.700.0215.41076.9
(CA)n400.000.000.04100.0
AT-rich TNRs11218.2436.4218.2327.3
GC-rich TNRs211780.114.814.829.6
Tetranucleotides400.0125.000.0375.0

[i] Clones used to compile these statistics: chr. 1, AC007789 andAP000969; chr. 6, AP000616 and AP001129.

[ii] Abbreviations: SSR, simple sequence repeat; TNR, trinucleotide; CDS, coding DNA sequence; UTR, untranslated region.