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Survey in the sugarcane expressed sequence tag database (SUCEST) for simple sequence repeats.
Genome - 1 Oct 2004
Pinto Luciana Rossini, Oliveira Karine Miranda, Ulian Eugênio César, Garcia Antonio Augusto Franco, de Souza Anete Pereira
Abstract excerpt
Sugarcane microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSR) were developed in an economical and practical way by mining EST databases. A survey in the SUCEST (sugarcane EST) database revealed a total of 2005 clusters out of 43,141 containing SSRs. Of these, 8.2% were dinucleotide, 30.5% were trinucleotide, and 61.3% were tetranucleotide repeats. Except for dinucleotides, the CG-rich motif types were the most...
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