Table 3. Number, abundance and density of mono- to hexanucleotide repeat type in the bovid genomes.

Repeat type		B. taurus	B. mutus	Bu. bubalis	O. aries	C. hircus	P. hodgsonii
Mono-	# SSRs	365,798	316,378	333,806	303,318	297,036	285,233
	Abundance (#/Mb)	122.61	119.61	117.7	117.22	112.69	105.76
	Density (bp/Mb)	1829.58	1759.18	1767.92	1750.45	1677.22	1537.07
Di-	# SSRs	187,846	171,526	187,499	167,117	164,986	163,312
	Abundance (#/Mb)	62.97	64.85	66.11	64.59	62.59	60.56
	Density (bp/Mb)	1380.85	1324.79	1364.80	1436.86	1350.32	1326.49
Tri-	# SSRs	123,674	112,936	121,982	91,709	92,073	90,696
	Abundance (#/Mb)	41.46	42.70	43.01	35.44	34.93	33.63
	Density (bp/Mb)	719.46	744.70	737.23	653.50	626.53	617.95
Tetra-	#SSRs	51,615	46,006	52,793	49,851	49,943	52,900
	Abundance (#/Mb)	17.30	17.39	18.61	19.27	18.95	19.62
	Density (bp/Mb)	298.90	301.74	325.73	353.53	341.88	361.72
Penta-	# SSRs	76,182	68,428	76,442	69,111	71,036	69,509
	Abundance (#/Mb)	25.54	25.87	26.95	26.71	26.95	25.77
	Density (bp/Mb)	537.95	554.38	566.31	582.83	587.20	568.36
Hexa-	# SSRs	1,792	1,086	1,787	1,785	1,943	1,429
	Abundance (#/Mb)	0.60	0.41	0.63	0.69	0.74	0.53
	Density (bp/Mb)	16.63	12.01	17.74	19.95	20.48	14.88