Table 2. The number of conserved short tandem repeat loci with gain or loss of repeat units.
| Motif | Unit gain |
Unit loss |
Unchanged |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC | AG | AT | Tri-* | AC | AG | AT | Tri-* | AC | AG | AT | Tri-* | |
| Turkey | 19 (0.28) | 11 (0.19) | 10 (0.30) | 12 (0.33) | 27 (0.39) | 14 (0.25) | 10 (0.30) | 9 (0.25) | 23 (0.33) | 32 (0.56) | 13 (0.39) | 15 (0.42) |
| Duck | 7 (0.33) | 6 (0.24) | 4 (0.36) | 5 (0.38) | 9 (0.43) | 8 (0.32) | 3 (0.27) | 4 (0.31) | 5 (0.24) | 11 (0.44) | 4 (0.36) | 4 (0.31) |
| Zebra finch | 8 (0.53) | 9 (0.38) | 3 (0.5) | 12 (0.5) | 3 (0.2) | 12 (0.5) | 1 (0.17) | 10 (0.42) | 4 (0.27) | 3 (0.12) | 2 (0.33) | 2 (0.08) |
| Flycatcher | 6 (0.38) | 6 (0.33) | 1 (0.33) | 4 (0.57) | 7 (0.44) | 8 (0.44) | 0 (−) | 0 (−) | 3 (0.19) | 4 (0.22) | 2 (0.67) | 3 (0.43) |
The number in brackets indicates the frequency of each STR category in each bird.
Numbers underlined and bold indicate significant levels of losses and gains, respectively (χ2 test; p < 0.05).
CG motifs are excluded from this table due to extremely low frequency.
*Trinucleotide repeats.