Distribution of different type of microsatellites in the silkworm genome. Except for the last column, in which longer than 12 base was considered, for rest of the calculations longer than 6 base was used for the analysis.

Repeat type	Repeat unit	Number of repeat units per MB of sequence   Genomic  EST Zchr-BAC			Kb  of  repeats  per  MB of  sequence			Repeats in the whole genomeb   Numberc   Mbd
mono	A	1094	1645	133	1.094	1.645	0.133	579.820	0.580
	C	11	5	0	0.11	0.005	0.000	5.830	0.006
Total		1105	1650	133	1.105	1.650	0.133	585.650	0.586
di	CA	242	128	160	0.484	0.255	0.320	128.260	0.257
	TA	375	160	334	0.749	0.320	0.668	198.750	0.397
	GA	207	130	116	0.414	0.260	0.232	109.710	0.21
	CG	8	36	15	0.016	0.071	0.030	4.240	0.008
Total		832	454	625	1.163	0.906	1.250	440.960	0.616
tri	TAA	92.10	34.70	132.80	0.276	0.104	0.398	48.810	0.146
	CAA	4.31	17.30	9.00	0.013	0.052	0.027	2.280	0.007
	CCA	2.73	16.70	16.40	0.008	0.050	0.049	1.450	0.004
	CGA	0.67	7.30	10.40	0.002	0.022	0.031	0.360	0.001
	CGG	4.34	13.70	10.40	0.013	0.041	0.031	2.300	0.007
	GAA	21.70	22.00	0.00	0.065	0.066	0.000	11.500	0.034
	GCA	0.67	8.00	10.40	0.002	0.024	0.031	0.360	0.001
	GGA	2.34	10.00	0.00	0.007	0.030	0.000	1.240	0.004
	GTA	24.20	10.00	25.40	0.072	0.030	0.076	12.830	0.038
	TGA	24.70	14.30	7.50	0.074	0.043	0.023	13.090	0.039
Total		277.60	154	222.30	0.532	0.462	0.666	147.130	0.282
tetra	0% AT	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
	25% AT	5.57	4.30	0.00	0.022	0.017	0.000	2.950	0.012
	50% AT	5.84	4.50	0.00	0.023	0.018	0.000	3.100	0.012
	75% AT	15.20	4.50	0.00	0.061	0.018	0.000	8.060	0.032
	100% AT	20.02	3.50	0.03	0.080	0.014	0.000	10.610	0.042
Total		46.63	16.80	0.03	0.186	0.067	0.000	24.720	0.098
penta	0% AT	0.21	0.00	0.00	0.001	0.000	0.000	0.110	0.001
	20% AT	1.23	0.00	0.00	0.006	0.000	0.000	0.650	0.003
	40% AT	0.22	1.23	0.00	0.001	0.006	0.000	0.120	0.001
	60% AT	2.61	0.84	0.00	0.013	0.004	0.000	1.380	0.007
	80% AT	6.83	1.82	0.00	0.034	0.009	0.000	3.620	0.018
	100% AT	0.22	1.61	0.00	0.001	0.008	0.000	0.120	0.001
Total		11.32	5.50	0.00	0.056	0.027	0.000	6.000	0.030
hexa	0% AT	0.00	1.33	0.00	0.000	0.008	0.000	0.000	0.000
	16.7% AT	0.67	0.00	8.96	0.004	0.000	0.054	0.360	0.002
	33.3% AT	0.33	2.67	0.00	0.002	0.016	0.000	0.170	0.001
	50% AT	0.34	0.83	0.00	0.002	0.005	0.000	0.180	0.001
	66.7% AT	2.67	5.17	0.00	0.016	0.031	0.000	1.420	0.008
	83.3% AT	0.17	8.02	0.00	0.001	0.048	0.000	0.090	0.001
	100% AT	0.52	5.17	14.93	0.003	0.031	0.090	0.280	0.002
Total		4.70	23.19	23.89	0.028	0.139	0.144	2.490	0.015
Grand Total		2277.25	2304.00	1004.00	3.070		2.193	1206.950	1.626

* in millions
** in Mbs