摘要
Microsatellitesorsimplesequencerepeats(SSR)functionwidelyandlocatedependentlyingenome.However,theircharacteristicsareoftenignoredduetothelackofgenomicsequencesofmostspecies.Kelp(Saccharinajaponica),abrownmacroalga,isextensivelyculturedinChina.Inthisstudy,thegenomeofS.japonicawassurveyedusinganIlluminasequencingplatform,anditsmicrosatelliteswerecharacterized.Thepreliminarilyassembledgenomewas469.4Mbinsize,withascaffoldN50of20529bp.Amongthe128370identifiedmicrosatellites,90671,25726and11973werefoundinintergenicregions,intronsandexons,averaging339.3,178.8and205.4microsatellitesperMb,respectively.ThesemicrosatellitesdistributedunevenlyinS.japonicagenome.Mononucleotidemotifswerethemostabundantinthegenome,whiletrinucleotideoneswerethemostprevalentinexons.Themicrosatelliteabundancedecreasedsignificantlywiththeincreaseofmotifrepeatnumbers,andthemicrosatelliteswithasmallnumberofrepeatsaccountedforahigherproportionoftheexonsthanthoseoftheintergenicregionsandintrons.C/G-richmotifsweremorecommoninexonsthaninintergenicregionsandintrons.ThesecharacteristicsofmicrosatellitesinS.japonicagenomemayassociatewiththeirfunctions,andultimatelytheiradaptationandevolution.Amongthe120140pairsofdesignedmicrosatelliteprimers,approximately75%werepredictedtobeabletoamplifyS.japonicaDNA.Thesemicrosatellitemarkerswillbeextremelyusefulforthegeneticbreedingandpopulationevolutionstudiesofkelp.
出版日期
2016年03月13日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)