2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A study on evolution of microsatellite DNA loci by comparison of species of closely related species

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22570093
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Biodiversity/Systematics
Research Institution	Kagawa University
Principal Investigator	TAKEZAKI Naoko 香川大学, 総合生命科学研究センター, 教授 (30398036)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	TAMURA Koichiro 首都大学東京, 理工学研究科, 教授 (00254144)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	集団・種多様性 / マイクロサテライト DNA / ゲノム進化 / 集団系統樹
Research Abstract	We developed a software to estimate evolutionary relationships of populations using microsatellite DNA loci and other genetic markers and investigated the difference of repeat numbers of microsatellite DNA loci among human populations and its effect on human genome size, and the difference of the mutational pattern of microsatellite loci in human and chimpanzee genomes.