ArticleJournal of molecular evolution2006
Long repeats in a huge genome: microsatellite loci in the grasshopper Chorthippus biguttulus.
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- High-throughput sequencing and graph-based cluster analysis facilitate microsatellite development from a highly complex genome.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
- Next generation sequencing and FISH reveal uneven and nonrandom microsatellite distribution in two grasshopper genomes.Chromosoma · 2015Article
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- Mining non-model genomic libraries for microsatellites: BAC versus EST libraries and the generation of allelic richness.BMC genomics · 2010Article
- Mutational dynamics of microsatellites.Molecular biotechnology · 2010Review
- The evolution of genome size in ants.BMC evolutionary biology · 2008Article
- Patterned sequence in the transcriptome of vascular plants.BMC genomics · 2007Article
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Abstract
It is commonly believed that both the average length and the frequency of microsatellites correlate with genome size. We have estimated the frequency and the average length for 69 perfect dinucleotide microsatellites in an insect with an exceptionally large genome: Chorthippus biguttulus (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Dinucleotide microsatellites are not more frequent in C. biguttulus, but repeat arrays are 1.4 to 2 times longer than in other insect species. The average repeat number in C. biguttulus lies in the range of higher vertebrates. Natural populations are highly variable. At least 30 alleles per locus were found and the expected heterozygosity is above 0.95 at all three loci studied. In contrast, the observed heterozygosity is much lower (< or = 0.51), which could be caused by long null alleles.
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