Repeated sequences subfamilies

We could not amplify the 471-bp fragment from female or male DNA of species from the subfamilies Sigmodontinae, Arvicolinae, or Gerbil-linae. Presumably, our primers, which were designed using the published Mus sequence (subfamily Murinae), were not an adequate match for amplification to take place. We repeated the experiments at lower annealing temperatures but were still unable to amplify Sry in representatives of these subfamilies. 

This database contains sequence exemplars of repetitive DNA from different eukaryotic species. Most entries are consensus sequences of large families and subfamilies of repeats, with smaller families represented by sequence examples. The entries include annotations and references and are released in EMBL format. Repbase Update [38M-0] is used by both CENSOR and RepeatMasker, which masks out these common repeats to speed up other analyses. Repbase Update is free to academic users. Commercial users need a license. 

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