Genome-wide characterization of microsatellite DNA in fishes: survey and analysis of their abundance and frequency in genome-specific regions

Microsatellite repeats are ubiquitous in organism genomes and play an important role in the chromatin organization, regulation of gene activity, recombination and DNA replication. Although microsatellite distr...

Source: BMC Genomics - June 7, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Yi Lei, Yu Zhou, Megan Price and Zhaobin Song Tags: Research Source Type: research