International Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Research Article

Purifying Selection Bias against Microsatellites in Gene Rich Segmental Duplications in the Rice Genome

Traceability of microsatellites originating from group I sequences into group II sequences.


Motif	Region	Length (bp) in group I sequences	Traceability in group II sequences
Motif	Region	Length (bp) in group I sequences	Equal	Short	Long

Chromosome 1 corresponding chromosome 5			9	2	2
(CCG)n	Intergenic	58	√
(CCG)n	Intergenic	78		√
(CGG)n	Intergenic	60			√
(CGG)n	Intergenic	60			√
(GAAAA)n	Intergenic	26	√
(GAAAA)n	Intergenic	33		√
(TTTTC)n	Intergenic	26	√
(TTTTC)n	Intergenic	26	√
(TTTTC)n	Intergenic	26	√
(TTTTC)n	Intron	26	√
(TTTTC)n	Intron	26	√
(TTTTC)n	Intergenic	22	√
(TTTTC)n	Intergenic	26	√

Chromosome 2 corresponding chromosome 4			6	2	4
(CCG)n	Intron	174		√
(CGA)n	Intron	150			√
(CGA)n	Intron	150			√
(CGG)n	Intergenic	58	√
(CGG)n	Intergenic	58	√
(CGG)n	Intergenic	211			√
(CGG)n	Intergenic	126			√
(CGG)n	Intergenic	211		√
(GAAAA)n	Intergenic	28	√
(TTTTC)n	Intron	22	√
(TTTTC)n	Intergenic	28	√
(TTTTC)n	Intergenic	27	√

Chromosome 2 corresponding chromosome 6			2	1	2
(CCG)n	Intron	74			√
(CCG)n	Intergenic	123			√
(CCG)n	Intergenic	75		√
(TTTTC)n	Intron	27	√
(TTTTC)n	Intergenic	27	√

Chromosome 3 corresponding chromosomes 7, 10, and 12			0	0	2
(CGG)n	Intergenic	59			√
(GAAAA)n	Intergenic	22			√

Chromosome 4 corresponding chromosomes 8 and 10			0	0	0

Chromosome 8 corresponding chromosome 9			1	2	1
(CCG)n	Intergenic	72			√
(CCG)n	Intergenic	155		√
(CCG)n	Intergenic	199		√
(TAA)n	Intergenic	29	√

Chromosome 11 corresponding chromosome 12			1	2	1
(CCG)n	Exon	76			√
(CCG)n	Exon	154		√
(CGG)n	Intergenic	147		√
(TCG)n	Exon	70	√