Article
Survey and analysis of microsatellites in the silkworm, Bombyx mori: frequency, distribution, mutations, marker potential and their conservation in heterologous species.
Genetics - 1 Jan 2005
Prasad M Dharma, Muthulakshmi M, Madhu M, Archak Sunil, Mita K, Nagaraju J
Abstract excerpt
We studied microsatellite frequency and distribution in 21.76-Mb random genomic sequences, 0.67-Mb BAC sequences from the Z chromosome, and 6.3-Mb EST sequences of Bombyx mori. We mined microsatellites of >/=15 bases of mononucleotide repeats and >/=5 repeat units of other classes of repeats. We estimated that microsatellites account for 0.31% of the genome of B. mori. Microsatellite tracts of A, AT, and ATT were...
Topics
- Animals
- Bombyx
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial
- Computational Biology
- Conserved Sequence
- Expressed Sequence Tags
- Genes, Insect
- Genetic Markers
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Mutation