Insertions-deletions in a microsatellite flanking region may be resolved by variation in stuttering patterns

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-262

  Gugerli, Felix ^a   Brodbeck, Sabine ^a   Holderegger, Rolf ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Allele calling; Flanking region; Fragment length analysis; Nuclear microsatellite; Nucleotide substitutions; Simple sequence repeat; Size homoplasy; Stuttering pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 48849089826     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-008-0034-7     Document Type: Article

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