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. 2008 Dec 17;9:612. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-612

Table 1.

Frequency of compound microsatellites in the whole genome and in the coding sequence (cds).

whole genome coding sequence
species m.1 c.2 cSSR3 %4 m.d.5 c.d.6 m.1 c.2 cSSR3 %4 m.d.5 c.d.6
H. sap. 1 169 530 59 792 129 848 11.1 413.0 21.1 4 965 104 233 4.7 77.4 1.6
M. mul. 1 178 381 61 407 134 455 11.4 445.3 23.2 3 638 64 139 3.8 71.3 1.3
M. mus. 1 574 180 173 535 398 361 25.3 617.9 68.1 3 995 95 202 5.1 72.5 1.7
R. nor. 1 307 474 133 120 291 304 22.3 527.8 53.7 1 883 92 226 12.0 92.6 4.5
O. anat. 133 984 1 913 3 969 3.0 327.2 4.7 1 535 16 34 2.2 42.8 0.5
G. gal. 233 896 8 532 17 989 7.7 237.5 8.7 1 889 36 77 4.1 58.3 1.1
D. rerio 1 048 258 94 159 225 069 21.5 688.1 61.8 3215 86 180 5.6 72.0 1.9
D. mel. 44 600 714 1 457 3.3 376.9 6.0 4 168 105 213 5.1 145.6 3.7

1total number of microsatellites in DNA sequence space

2total number of compound microsatellites in DNA sequence space

3number of individual microsatellites being part of a compound microsatellite

4percentage of individual microsatellites being part of a compound microsatellite (cSSR-%)

5microsatellite density [m./Mbp]

6compound microsatellite density [c./Mbp]

H. sap.: Homo sapiens; M. mul.: Macaca mulatta; M. mus.: Mus musculus; R. nor.: Rattus norvegicus; O. anat.: Ornithorhynchus anatinus; G. gal.: Gallus gallus; D. rerio: Danio rerio; D. mel.: