Huaming Zhong

Nov 3, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Huaming Zhong |Xuan Shao |Jing Cao |Jie Huang

1 Introduction Microsatellites, or simple sequence repeats (SSRs), are tandem repeats of 1–6 bp DNA motifs (Dirlewanger et al. 2004). These noncoding elements are abundant in eukaryotic genomes, spanning intergenic, intron, and coding regions (Pérez-Jiménez et al. 2013; Phumichai, Phumichai, and Wongkaew 2014). SSRs in coding regions constitute 1%–17% of total SSRs in vertebrate genomes (Varshney et al. 2002) and 0.2%–21% in arthropod genomes (Behura et al.