Table 2. The distribution of microsatellites in coding sequences across 9 grass species and 3 other plants.
| Species | Gene Number | Gene Containing SSR (Number and Percent) | Sequence Size (Mb) | SSRs Number | SSRs Frequency (Number per Mb) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gene | CDS | Gene | CDS | Gene | CDS | Gene | CDS | Gene | CDS | |
| Triticum aestivum | 102503 | 100344 | 10884 (10.62%) | 4931 (4.91%) | 125.79 | 88.50 | 12972 | 5508 | 103.12 | 62.23 |
| Triticum urartu | 34977 | 33483 | 2081 (5.95%) | 2035 (6.08%) | 37.72 | 36.50 | 2426 | 2378 | 64.32 | 65.16 |
| Aegilops tauschii | 33995 | 33928 | 2328 (6.85%) | 2328 (6.86%) | 40.87 | 40.87 | 2640 | 2640 | 64.59 | 64.60 |
| Hordeum vulgare | 62584 | 62315 | 13005 (20.78%) | 3787 (6.08%) | 116.95 | 65.91 | 16890 | 4291 | 144.42 | 65.10 |
| Brachypodium distachyon | 31029 | 31029 | 5369 (17.3%) | 3717 (11.98%) | 49.14 | 39.73 | 6492 | 4443 | 132.13 | 111.83 |
| Oryza sativa | 42132 | 40745 | 16961 (40.26%) | 8744 (21.46%) | 66.78 | 45.52 | 26282 | 12262 | 393.56 | 269.37 |
| Setaria italica | 40599 | 40599 | 6748 (16.62%) | 4342 (10.69%) | 57.96 | 46.06 | 8132 | 5061 | 140.31 | 109.88 |
| Sorghum bicolor | 36338 | 36338 | 7825 (21.53%) | 5435 (14.96%) | 49.07 | 42.18 | 10460 | 6920 | 213.17 | 164.04 |
| Zea mays | 63235 | 63235 | 14667 (23.19%) | 6673 (10.55%) | 97.45 | 63.28 | 19635 | 8221 | 201.49 | 129.92 |
| Arabidopsis thaliana | 40223 | 35386 | 9667 (24.03%) | 2880 (8.14%) | 64.25 | 43.55 | 12765 | 3302 | 198.68 | 75.83 |
| Glycine max | 73319 | 73319 | 23119 (31.53%) | 5723 (7.81%) | 132.77 | 89.75 | 32869 | 6846 | 247.56 | 76.28 |
| Populus trichocarpa | 45778 | 45778 | 8745 (19.1%) | 2825 (6.17%) | 64.49 | 51.55 | 11246 | 3282 | 174.38 | 63.67 |