Background: Centromeres are essential for chromosome segregation, yet their DNA sequences evolve rapidly. In most animals and plants that have been studied, centromeres contain megabase-scale arrays of tandem repeats. ...

Yeast microsatellite loci consist of short tandem-repeated DNA sequences of variable length. The high mutational rate at these loci generates a remarkable repertoire of alleles, useful for strain differentiation and ...

Anaplasma marginale is the most prevalent tick-borne pathogen in cattle in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Major Surface Protein 1a (MSP1a) has been found to be a stable genetic marker for identifying A. ...

The diacylglycerol-O-transferase 1 gene is a positional and functional candidate for milk composition traits. The objective of this study was to evaluate the segregation of the variable number of tandem repeat polymorphisms ...

The characterisation of sequences at chromosome ends of Rhynchosciara americana was continued with the screening of a genomic library using as a probe a short repeat identified in a previous report (M-22, 22 bp) which was ...

A substantial portion of the primate genome is composed of non-coding regions, so-called dark matter, which includes an abundance of tandemly repeated sequences called satellite DNA. Collectively known as the satellitome, ...