Table 1. The number and frequency of microsatellites in the whole genomes of 14 sequenced Poaceae species and three other plants.

Species	Whole genome						Microsatellite Type (%)
	Genome Size (Mb)	GC Content (%)	SSRs Number	SSRs Frequency (Number per Mb)	MNRs	DNRs	TNRs	TeNRs	PNRs	HNRs
Brachypodium distachyon	271.92	46.21	51981	191.16	58.95	18.12	20.48	1.90	0.38	0.16
Oryza sativa	373.25	43.55	135501	363.03	47.86	27.57	22.04	1.90	0.45	0.19
Setaria italica	405.74	45.6	61931	152.64	54.24	21.11	21.83	2.13	0.44	0.26
Sorghum bicolor	738.54	41.49	129564	175.43	43.15	29.44	21.98	4.14	0.73	0.56
Triticum monococcum	1208.99	47.12	207430	171.57	48.79	32.24	16.54	2.07	0.24	0.11
Aegilops sharonensis	1603.87	46.21	216638	135.07	44.02	33.38	19.94	2.22	0.27	0.18
Aegilops speltoides	1760.38	45.97	301460	171.25	52.54	29.04	16.12	1.93	0.24	0.12
Phyllostachys heterocycla	2051.72	39.35	302615	147.49	50.20	37.13	9.81	1.94	0.42	0.51
Zea mays	2066.43	46.6	198939	96.27	43.18	32.77	21.53	1.67	0.54	0.31
Triticum turgidum (Strongfield)	3119.31	46.16	451421	144.72	47.25	33.98	16.47	1.95	0.22	0.14
Triticum turgidum (Langdon)	3139.70	46.76	472611	150.53	47.58	33.09	17.07	1.91	0.22	0.13
Hordeum vulgare	1868.65	43.19	289981	155.18	45.47	32.12	20.16	1.85	0.27	0.14
Triticum aestivum (Version 2, 2014 May)	10138.70	44.63	1064878	105.03	28.97	47.24	21.75	1.62	0.20	0.21
Triticum urartu	4660.79	38.2	456045	97.85	32.32	43.75	21.77	1.59	0.15	0.41
Aegilops tauschii	4147.41	37.75	422271	101.82	36.49	39.83	21.84	1.45	0.17	0.22
Arabidopsis thaliana	119.67	36	50092	418.59	69.56	18.74	11.17	0.34	0.08	0.11
Populus trichocarpa	417.14	32.57	278606	667.90	69.83	19.49	9.02	1.14	0.28	0.24
Glycine max	973.34	34.1	405325	416.43	64.56	24.64	9.48	0.98	0.29	0.07