Table 5.

Statistics of simple sequence repeats (SSRs)

		Non-transcribed regions			Protein-coding regions
		Di-	Tri-	Tetra-	Di-	Tri-	Tetra-
No. of total SSRs		258	496	187	3	777	7
No. of shared SSRsa		16	177	68	0	358	4
No. of polymorphic SSRs		242	319	119	3	419	3
No. of SSRs with lineage-specific length polymorphismsb	Osj	3	8	11	0	22	0
	Osi	26	52	20	0	54	0
	Og	74	139	46	1	175	1
No. of SSRs with the same length but lineage-specific polymorphismsc	Osj	5	9	3	0	23	0
	Osi	5	11	6	0	33	1
	Og	9	37	17	0	51	0

Osj, Oryza sativa japonica; Osi, Oryza sativa indica; Og, Oryza glaberrima.

^aNumbers of SSRs that are identical among the three genomes.

^bNumbers of SSRs whose length was different in one of the three genomes and same in the other two.

^cNumbers of SSRs whose length was identical among the three genomes but sequence was different in one of the three genomes.