Identification, distribution and comparative analysis of microsatellites in the chloroplast genome of Oryza species

Chloroplast genome is important because of its maternally inherited, conserved within species and stable in structure. This allows elucidation of inter-specific comparison, identification and establishment of evolutionary relationship among different species. Different classes of DNA elements were present in chloroplast genome of Oryza species, among them chloroplast microsatellites were supposed to be highly variable. In this study, a total of...