Table 1.
Identification of avian microsatellite sequences of high cross-species utility*
| Motif | ZF | CH | ZF-CH consensus sequences created | Primer sets designed | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
n |
% |
n |
% |
n |
% |
n |
% |
| AT/TA |
3,586 |
56 |
2,700 |
41 |
16 |
38 |
4 |
17 |
| CA/GT |
2,329 |
36 |
2,711 |
41 |
22 |
52 |
16 |
67 |
| GA/CT |
543 |
8 |
1,169 |
18 |
4 |
10 |
4 |
17 |
| GC/CG |
0 |
0 |
1 |
<0.1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Total | 6,458 | 6,581 | 42 | 24 | ||||
*possessing at least eight dinucleotide repeat units and based on a search of the zebra finch (ZF) and chicken (CH) genomes using the marker development criteria outlined in the Methods section.