… Nevertheless, the application of microsatellites to population … processes of microsatellite
DNA as the evolutionary time frames … Additional interest in the evolution of microsatellite DNA …

… One aim of the study of microsatellite evolution is to predict their mutational patterns in
order … that use microsatellites as markers work under the basic assumption that microsatellite …

… prove useful for DNA fingerprinting. Today scientists generally consider microsatellite DNA to
… What makes microsatellite DNA so important for evolution is its extremely high mutation rate…

… is a crucial factor determining the evolutionary dynamics of microsatellite DNA, and it is
important to … Taking the simplest model of microsatellite evolution, DNA slippage is a symmetrical …

… SSRs within genes evolve through mutational processes similar to those for SSRs located
… These mutational processes generate DNA changes that should be connected by DNA …

… microsatellite replication. Here, I review these new findings and summarize our current
knowledge about microsatellite evolution. … Length changes in microsatellite DNA are generally …

… about microsatellite evolution. First, we find that larger genomes do not have … microsatellite
loci and therefore reject the hypothesis that microsatellites function primarily to package DNA …

… mutations of germline origin, I show here that different mutation biases underlie the evolution
of microsatellite repeats. The within-locus mutation rate increases with allele length, but is …

… of the bulk of DNA. Such high … on DNA sequence evolution to be made through an unusually
direct approach. Here I discuss and integrate microsatellite mutation data in an evolutionary …

… wealth of genetic information provided by microsatellite data. Here, we report on several of
the most recent and innovative methods for retrieving information from microsatellites, and on …