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Table 3 Survey of microsatellite distribution and mean lengths in various genomes

From: Fosmid library end sequencing reveals a rarely known genome structure of marine shrimp Penaeus monodon

Species

% genome (bp)

Density

Mean length (bp)

References

P. monodon

8.30

1 per 1.32 kb

109.2

This study

B. mori

0.31

1 per 9.56 kb

29.6

[24]

Arthropodaa

0.54

--

--

[13]

Fugu

1.30

1 per 1.876 kb

25.6

[11, 12]

Human

1.0-3.0

1 per 6 kb

19.0

[10]

  1. a Data mostly from Drosophila melanogaster and other 159 Drosophila sp.