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Table 2 Relative density and coverage of 1-6 bp microsatellites in five nematode genomes

From: Genome-wide survey and analysis of microsatellites in nematodes, with a focus on the plant-parasitic species Meloidogyne incognita

Motif length (bp)

 

Nematode species

  

M. incognita

M. hapla

C. elegans

P. pacificus

B. malayi

1

No.

2,635

1,385

6,479

10,933

46,466

 

No./Mbp

30.6

26.1

64.6

64.4

485.0

 

%a

54.0

48.7

56.9

52.8

75.6

 

Length (bp)

39,399

19,331

89,913

184,836

738,987

 

Bp/Mbp

457.8

364.6

896.6

1088.9

7712.7

2

No.

196

99

1,982

3,971

7,058

 

No./Mbp

2.3

1.9

19.8

23.4

73.7

 

%

4.0

3.5

17.4

19.2

11.5

 

Length (bp)

3,906

2,092

52,382

87,108

196,902

 

Bp/Mbp

45.4

39.5

522.3

513.2

2055.0

3

No.

1,796

1,081

2,338

4,823

6,029

 

No./Mbp

20.9

20.4

23.3

28.4

62.9

 

%

36.8

38.0

20.5

23.3

9.8

 

Length (bp)

28,629

16,902

39,291

88,401

137,445

 

Bp/Mbp

328.5

318.8

391.8

520.8

1434.5

4

No.

213

265

246

709

1,661

 

No./Mbp

2.5

5.0

2.5

4.2

17.3

 

%

4.4

9.3

2.2

3.4

2.7

 

Length (bp)

7,580

6,916

6,628

18,112

63,024

 

Bp/Mbp

88.1

130.4

66.1

106.7

657.8

5

No.

34

10

38

163

224

 

No./Mbp

0.4

0.2

0.4

1.0

2.3

 

%

0.7

0.4

0.3

0.8

0.4

 

Length (bp)

870

270

1,040

5,010

7,440

 

Bp/Mbp

10.1

5.1

10.4

29.5

77.7

6

No.

6

2

300

95

109

 

No./Mbp

0.1

0.1

3.0

0.6

1.1

 

%

0.1

0.1

2.6

0.5

0.2

 

Length (bp)

192

138

17,256

6,600

7,656

 

Bp/Mbp

2.2

2.6

172.1

38.9

79.9

  1. a% = no./total no. of microsatellites.