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Table 4 Summary of microsatellite marker identification from catfish ESTs

From: Assembly of 500,000 inter-specific catfish expressed sequence tags and large scale gene-associated marker development for whole genome association studies

Total number of unique sequences

111,578

Microsatellites identified

20,757

   Di-nucleotide repeats

12,367

   Tri-nucleotide repeats

5,506

   Tetra-nucleotide repeats

2,664

   Penta-nucleotide repeats

182

   Hexa-nucleotide repeats

38

Number of unique sequences containing microsatellites

15,082

Number of unique sequences containing microsatellites with sufficient flanking sequences for PCR primer design

13,375