One hundred nuclear-encoded microsatellites from a genomic library of red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) were isolated and characterized. Eight microsatellites had tetranucleotide motifs; 92 had dinucleotide motifs. The average number of alleles per microsatellite (sample of 22-24 fish) was 17.7 (range = 2-30); gene diversity averaged 0.796 (range = 0.227-1.000). Following Bonferroni correction, ge...

Abstract The mountain gorilla ( Gorilla beringei ) is one of two endangered subspecies eastern gorilla. principle approach to monitoring the extant populations has been use fecal surveys obtain DNA profiles for individuals that are then used capture-recapture-based estimates abundance. To date, 11 14 microsatellites have this purpose. adapt ongoing changes in genotyping technologies and facilit...

Genetic improvement of coffee ( Coffea arabica L.) is constrained by low genetic diversity and lack of genetic markers, suitable screening tools, information on the genetic makeup of available gene pool and long generation time. In this context, use of DNA markers such as microsatellites that provide high genetic-resolution becomes highly desirable. Here, we report the development of nine new m...

We have performed a fine-scale comparative study of the human and chimpanzee genomes, using linkage, linkage disequilibrium and sequence analyses on microsatellite loci spanning a region of approximately 30 cM on human chromosome 4p. Our results extend the findings of previous studies that indicated virtually complete conservation between the human and chimpanzee genomes at the chromosomal and ...

Microsatellites (MSs) are DNA regions consisting of repeated short motif(s). MSs are linked to several diseases and have important biomedical applications. Thus, researchers have developed several computational tools to detect MSs. However, the currently available tools require adjusting many parameters, or depend on a list of motifs or on a library of known MSs. Therefore, two laboratories ana...