Research Article

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

Table 3

Description of paralogous loci where microsatellite motif has been found altered either by splitting and integrating, or replaced with another motif.

Duplication pairMotif at group I siteMotif at group II site

DP 1A5(CCG)n(TCC)n
(TTAA)n(CCG)n
(CGG)n(CCG)n
(CGA)n

DP 2A4(CGG)n(CGA)n

DP 8A9(CCG)n(CCG)n
(TCG)n
(TAA)n(CGA)n

DP 11A12(CCG)n(CCG)n
(CCG)n
(CGG)n(CGA)n
(CCG)n(CCG)n
(CCG)n
(CCG)n(CCG)n
(CCG)n