Large-scale analysis reveals that the genome features of simple sequence repeats are generally conserved at the family level in insects.
Simin DingShuping WangKang HeMingxing JiangFei LiPublished in: BMC genomics (2017)
Millions of insect SSRs were identified and their genome features were analyzed. Most insect SSRs were perfect and were located in intergenic regions. We presented evidence that the variance of insect SSRs accumulated after the differentiation of insect families.