Table 1 |
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Abundance and average density of microsatellites, minisatellites and satellites in the D. melanogaster and T. castaneum genomes identified by TRF |
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| Number of base pairs |
Percentage of genome |
Number of loci |
Average density* (loci/Mb) |
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| Tribolium |
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| Microsatellites |
591,105 |
0.4 |
17,328 |
114 |
| Minisatellites |
3,112,304 |
2.1 |
120,474 |
796 |
| Satellites |
3,775,523 |
2.5 |
4,272 |
28 |
| Total tandem repeats |
7,478,923 |
4.9 |
142,074 |
939 |
| Genome |
151,333,735 |
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| Drosophila |
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| Microsatellites |
1,442,241 |
1.0 |
52,906 |
367 |
| Minisatellites |
3,590,753 |
2.5 |
126,237 |
876 |
| Satellites |
1,075,701 |
0.7 |
1,343 |
9 |
| Total tandem repeats |
6,108,695 |
4.2 |
180,486 |
1,253 |
| Genome |
143,955,363† |
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*For the Tribolium genome, average density = number of repeats/151 Mb; for the Drosophila genome, average density = number of repeats/144 Mb. †The size of the Drosophila genome was calculated by summing the euchromatin (124,006,872 bp) and heterochromatin (19,948,491 bp) not including sequence gaps. |
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Wang et al. Genome Biology 2008 9:R61 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-3-r61 |
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