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Genome wide characterization of short tandem repeat markers in sweet orange (Citrus sinensis).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Biswas Manosh Kumar, Xu Qiang, Mayer Christoph, Deng Xiuxin
Abstract excerpt
Sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) is one of the major cultivated and most-consumed citrus species. With the goal of enhancing the genomic resources in citrus, we surveyed, developed and characterized microsatellite markers in the ≈347 Mb sequence assembly of the sweet orange genome. A total of 50,846 SSRs were identified with a frequency of 146.4 SSRs/Mbp. Dinucleotide repeats are the most frequent repeat class and...
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