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Low mutation rates of microsatellite loci in Drosophila melanogaster.

Nature genetics - 1 Jan 1997

Schug M D, Mackay T F, Aquadro C F

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Analysis of variation at microsatellite DNA loci is widely used in studies of parentage, linkage and evolutionary history. The utility of microsatellites is primarily due to high levels of allelic diversity, believed to reflect mutation rates orders of magnitude higher than base pair substitution...

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Animals
Drosophila melanogaster
Humans
Microsatellite Repeats
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation

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PMID: 8988178
DOI: 10.1038/ng0197-99

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