Table 3 Overview of the microsatelites present in the ‘Pahang’ (Musa A) and ‘Pisang Klutuk Wulung’ (PKW, Musa B) genomes, and a comparison with the results of Hribova et al. obtained from the analysis of ~100 Mb of the repetitive region of M. acuminata cv ‘Calcutta 4’ genome[37]

2-mers

25,893

74

22,908

75

9,335

33

3-mers

5,245

15

4,571

15

8,988

32

4-mers

1,027

3

798

3

3,257

12

5-mers

505

1

390

1

1,923

7

6-mers

956

3

749

2

2,129

8

7-mers

266

1

220

1

797

3

8-mers

427

1

394

1

666

2

9-mers

192

1

225

1

555

2

10-mers

360

1

344

1

296

1

Total number of repeats

34,871

30,599

27,946

Total number of repeat bases

2,095,593

1,955,541

1,003,716

genome sized (bp)

472,960,417

341,431,243

98,538,911

SSR bps/Kbp genome

4.44

5.73

SSRs/Kbp genome

0.074

0.09