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Distribution of microsatellites in the genome of Medicago truncatula: a resource of genetic markers that integrate genetic and physical maps.
Genetics - 1 Apr 2006
Mun Jeong-Hwan, Kim Dong-Jin, Choi Hong-Kyu, Gish John, Debellé Frédéric, Mudge Joanne, Denny Roxanne, Endré Gabriella, Saurat Oliver, Dudez Anne-Marie, Kiss Gyorgy B, Roe Bruce, Young Nevin D, Cook Douglas R
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Microsatellites are tandemly repeated short DNA sequences that are favored as molecular-genetic markers due to their high polymorphism index. Plant genomes characterized to date exhibit taxon-specific differences in frequency, genomic location, and motif structure of microsatellites, indicating that extant microsatellites originated recently and turn over quickly. With the goal of using microsatellite markers to...
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