Simple Sequence Repeats in
            Eukaryotic Genome Sequences

Genome / Chromosome	Sequence length in mbp	Single- Nucleotide Repeats		Di- Nucleotide Repeats		Tri- Nucleotide Repeats		Tetra- Nucleotide Repeats
Human Chromosome-21	33.82	4797		3552		838		4047
Human Chromosome-22	33.62	7512		2722		1311		5094
D. melanogaster Chromosome-01	21.95	3447		4721		2980		2125
D. melanogaster Chromosome-arm2L	22.58	1072		2137		1407		1171
D. melanogaster Chromosome-arm2R	21.07	957		2165		1664		1210
D. melanogaster Chromosome-arm3L	23.67	1330		2184		1963		1312
D. melanogaster Chromosome-arm3R	27.86	1498		2923		2367		1614
A. thaliana Chromosome-II	19.65	1051		1004		869		370
A. thaliana Chromosome-IV	17.55	941		940		843		310
C. elegans Chromosome-I	14.75*	553		514		425		313
C. elegans Chromosome-II	16.62*	506		373		429		421
C. elegans Chromosome-III	11.60*	351		358		369		225
C. elegans Chromosome-IV	14.45*	335		318		346		345
C. elegans Chromosome-V	20.52*	566		358		372		377
C. elegans Chromosome-X	17.29*	532		518		349		264
Yeast complete genome sequence	12.07	534		383		604		148

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* C. elegans chromosome sequence lengths reported here are corrected by removing unsequenced gaps represented as stretches of "N" in the sequences.

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