| Table 1: The number and average distance (in kilobase pairs) between all possible dimeric, trimeric, and tetrameric Simple Sequence Repeat DNA sequences in plant species determined from a search of GenBank. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimeric repeats | Trimeric repeats | Tetrameric repeats | |||||
| Plant Species |
Kilobases searched kbp |
No. |
Distance between repeats kbp |
No. |
Distance between repeats kbp |
No. |
Distance between repeats kbp |
| Saccharomyces cervisiae | 2288 | 40 | 57 | 29 | 79 | 2 | 1144 |
| Nicotiana tabacum | 118 | 4 | 29 | 0 | - | 0 | - |
| Glycine max | 212 | 6 | 35 | 1 | 212 | 4 | 53 |
| Lycopersicon esculentum | 135 | 2 | 68 | 0 | - | 1 | 135 |
| Triticum aestivum | 151 | 1 | 151 | 43 | 4 | 0 | - |
| Medicago sativa | 30 | 0 | - | 1 | 30 | 0 | - |
| Pisum sativum | 129 | 3 | 43 | 3 | 43 | 2 | 64 |
| Zea mays | 368 | 3 | 123 | 4 | 91 | 6 | 61 |
| Arabidopsis thaliana | 247 | 4 | 62 | 1 | 247 | 0 | - |
| Oryza sativa | 137 | 2 | 68 | 2 | 68 | 6 | 23 |
| Dimeric repeats such as (AT) with n>9. | |||||||
| Trimeric repeats such as (ATT) with n>7. | |||||||
| Tetrameric repeats such as (AGAT) with n>4. | |||||||