Agriculture (Dec 2015)

In Silico Retrieving of Opium Poppy (Papaver Somniferum L.) Microsatellites

  • Masárová Veronika,
  • Mihálik Daniel,
  • Kraic Ján

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/agri-2015-0020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 61, no. 4
pp. 149 – 156

Abstract

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Repetitive tandem sequences were retrieved within nucleotide sequences of opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) genomic DNA available in the GenBank® database. Altogether 538 different microsatellites with the desired length characteristics of tandem repeats have been identified within 450 sequences of opium poppy DNA available in the database. The most frequented were mononucleotide repeats (246); nevertheless, 44 dinucleotide, 148 trinucleotide, 62 tetranucleotide, 28 pentanucleotide and 5 hexanucleotide tandem repeats have also been found. The most abundant were trinucleotide motifs (27.50%), and the most abundant motifs within each group of tandem repeats were TA/AT, TTC/GAA, GGTT/AACC and TTTTA/ TAAAA. Five hexanucleotide repeats contained four different motifs.

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