Microsatellites: genomic distribution, putative functions and mutational mechanisms: a review

YC Li, AB Korol, T Fahima, A Beiles… - Molecular ecology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Microsatellites, or tandem simple sequence repeats (SSR), are abundant across genomes
and show high levels of polymorphism. SSR genetic and evolutionary mechanisms remain …

Microsatellites within genes: structure, function, and evolution

YC Li, AB Korol, T Fahima, E Nevo - Molecular biology and …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Recently, increasingly more microsatellites, or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have been
found and characterized within protein-coding genes and their untranslated regions (UTRs) …

Microsatellites and their genomic distribution, evolution, function and applications: a review with special reference to fish genetics

DA Chistiakov, B Hellemans, FAM Volckaert - Aquaculture, 2006 - Elsevier
Microsatellites represent codominant molecular genetic markers, which are ubiquitously
distributed within genomes. Due to their high level of polymorphism, relatively small size and …

The role of variable DNA tandem repeats in bacterial adaptation

K Zhou, A Aertsen, CW Michiels - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2014 - academic.oup.com
DNA tandem repeats (TRs), also designated as satellite DNA, are inter-or intragenic
nucleotide sequences that are repeated two or more times in a head-to-tail manner …

Polymorphism in ornamental and common carp strains (Cyprinus carpio L.) as revealed by AFLP analysis and a new set of microsatellite markers

L David, P Rajasekaran, J Fang, J Hillel… - Molecular Genetics and …, 2001 - Springer
Forty-seven new microsatellite markers were generated and applied, together with the AFLP
(Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism) technique using two different enzyme …

Characterization and repeat analysis of the compact genome of the freshwater pufferfish Tetraodon nigroviridis

HR Crollius, O Jaillon, C Dasilva… - Genome …, 2000 - genome.cshlp.org
Tetraodon nigroviridis is a freshwater pufferfish 20–30 million years distant from Fugu
rubripes. The genome of both tetraodontiforms is compact, mostly because intergenic and …

Microsatellites within genes and ESTs of common carp and their applicability in silver crucian carp

GH Yue, MY Ho, L Orban, J Komen - Aquaculture, 2004 - Elsevier
Thirty-six new microsatellites were identified from common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) by
screening through genes found in GenBank, EST sequences from a testis cDNA library and …

High tandem repeat content in the genome of the short-lived annual fish Nothobranchius furzeri: a new vertebrate model for aging research

K Reichwald, C Lauber, I Nanda, J Kirschner… - Genome biology, 2009 - Springer
Abstract Background The annual fish Nothobranchius furzeri is the vertebrate with the
shortest known life span in captivity. Fish of the GRZ strain live only three to four months …

Microsatellite flanking region similarities among different loci within insect species

E Meglécz, SJ Anderson, D Bourguet… - Insect Molecular …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Although microsatellites are ubiquitous in eukaryota, the number of available markers varies
strongly among taxa. This meta‐analysis was conducted on 32 insect species. Sequences …

Microsatellite landscape evolutionary dynamics across 450 million years of vertebrate genome evolution

RH Adams, H Blackmon, J Reyes-Velasco… - …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
The evolutionary dynamics of simple sequence repeats (SSRs or microsatellites) across the
vertebrate tree of life remain largely undocumented and poorly understood. In this study, we …