Conservation and Evolution of Microsatellites in Vertebrate Genomes

Microsatellites are strings of short DNA motifs (≤6 bp) repeated in tandem across genomes of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In 20 years, they became popular genetic markers, successfully employed in the field of genetic mapping and gene hunting, as well as to address various biological questions a...

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Main Author: Buschiazzo, Emmanuel
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1595