Table 1.
Frequency of various simple sequence repeats (SSR) motifs (1–6 bp in length) in seven cucurbit genomes.
| SSR type | Genome | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dali-11 (M. charantia) | OHB3-1 (M. charantia) | 9930 (C. sativus) | PI183967 (C. sativus var. hardwickii) | 97103 (C. lanatus) | WCG (C. lanatus) | DHL92 (C. melo) | |
| Mono- | 114,789 | 98,499 | 69,085 | 71,731 | 187,528 | 208,537 | 136,601 |
| Di- | 29,648 | 29,048 | 25,117 | 27,470 | 37,951 | 43,200 | 44,597 |
| Tri- | 33,508 | 29,936 | 27,799 | 29,019 | 49,054 | 54,825 | 55,975 |
| Tetra- | 7,075 | 6,812 | 5,176 | 5,467 | 15,540 | 17,214 | 10,724 |
| Penta- | 1,776 | 1,671 | 1,665 | 1,768 | 4,205 | 4,941 | 4,550 |
| Hexa- | 1,295 | 1,194 | 1,105 | 1,166 | 2,082 | 2,345 | 1,796 |
| Total number | 188,091 | 167,160 | 129,947 | 136,621 | 296,360 | 331,062 | 254,243 |
| Densitya | 639.73 | 585.27 | 658.72 | 667.08 | 834.24 | 818.07 | 624.78 |
aNumber of SSRs present in one million bases (SSRs/Mb).