Table S1 List of certain centromeric sequences of different plant species.
Name
class of repeat and size
source
pAl1
tandem satellite (178 bp)
A. thaliana (Martinez-Zapater, et al., 1986)
pAa
tandem satellite (166-179 bp)
A. arenosa/ lyrata/ halleri (Kamm et al., 1995)
pAge1
tandem sattelite (169 bp)
A. lyrata/ halleri (Kawabe and Nasuda, 2005)
pAge2
tandem satelite (178 bp)
A. lyrata/ halleri (Kawabe and Nasuda, 2005)
500 bp
tandem satellite (500 bp)
A. thaliana (Simoens et al., 1988)
160 p
tandem satellite (160 bp)
A. thaliana (Simoens et al., 1988)
163A
non-tandem repeat (0.45 kp)
A. thaliana (Thompson et al., 1996)
164A
non-tandem repeat (0.9 kp)
A. thaliana (Thompson et al., 1996)
278A
non-tandem repeats (1.3 kp)
A. thaliana (Thompson et al., 1996)
106B
retrotransposon related (0.4 kp)
A. thaliana (Thompson et al., 1996)
pRA5/ pRB
tandem satellite (177 bp)
Raphanus sativus (Grellet et al., 1986)
canrep
tandem satellite (172 bp)
Sinapis alba (Capesius, 1983)
CentC
tandem satellite (156 bp)
Zea mays (Ananiev et al., 1998)
CentO/ RCS2 tandem satellite (155-168 bp)
Oryza sativa (Dong et al., 1998)
LCS1
tandem satellite (178 bp)
Luzula nivea (Haizel et al., 2005)
Bd49
tandem repeat (176 bp)
B chromosome of Brachyome
dichromosomatica (John et al., 1991)
Pmel
centromeric repeat (370 bp)
B-chromosome of Zea mays
(Kaszas and Birchler, 1996)
CCS1
CCS1 family (260 bp)
Brachypodium sylvaticum
(Aragon-Alcaide et al., 1996)
BCS1
CCS1 family (238 bp)
Hordeum vulgare
(Aragon-Alcaide et al., 1996)
MCS1A
CCS1 family (404 bp)
Zea mays (Aragon-Alcaide et al., 1996)
RCS1
CRM & CCS1 familiy (877 bp)
Oryza sativa (Aragon-Alcaide et al., 1996)
pSauA9
CRM retrotransposon
(745 bp)
Sorghum bicolor (Jiang et al., 1996)
Spdl
CRM retrotransposon
(2221 bp)
Picea glauca (L'Homme et al., 2000)
cerebra
CRM retrotransposon
(809 bp)
Hordeum vulgare (Presting et al., 1998)
CRR
CRM retrotransposon
(4.4 kb)
Oryza sativa (Cheng et al., 2002)
CRM
CRM retrotransposon
(7572 bp)
Zea mays (Zhong et al., 2002)
CRW
CRM retrotransposon
(4.4-7.9 kb)
Triticum baeoticum (Liu et al., 2008)
CRS
CRM retrotransposon
(3.6 kb)
Saccharum officinarum
(Nagaki and Murata, 2005)
Beetle 1
CRM retrotransposon
(6690 bp)
Beta vulgaris (Weber and Schmidt, 2009)
Beetle 2
CRM retrotransposon
(6736 bp)
Beta vulgaris (Weber and Schmidt, 2009)
CRA
CRM retrotransposon
(4.8-7.8 kb)
A. thaliana (Gorinsek et al., 2004)
Athila
Athila retrotransposon (10.5 kb)
A. thaliana (Pelissier et al., 1995)
Bilby
Ty1/copia retrotransposon (3.4 kb)
Secale cereale (Francki, 2001)
For further information on centromeric repeats check Mehrotra and Goyal (2014).
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