If you face a housing crisis, setting guidelines for minimum unit sizes is not the answer.
Di- to hexa-nucleotide SSRs with a minimum repeat unit size of five (for tri- to hexa-nucleotide) or six (for di-nucleotide) were identified based on the analysis of assembled isotig templates.
The minimum repeat-unit size for di-nucleotides was set at six and at five for tri- to hexa-nucleotide repeats.
Our results show that all three management choices under investigation (cut unit size, minimum harvest age and target species for management) have strong effects on forest composition and landscape patterns.
We used a factorial design experiment in LANDIS (a forest landscape simulation model) to test the effects of: (a) cut unit size, (b) minimum harvest age and (c) target species for management.
The EST sequences were scanned using a local version of the MIcroSAtellite (MISA) program (http://pgrc.ipk-gatersleben.de/misa/) to identify class I SSRs with the parameters: (i) unit size / minimum number of repeats: (2/10) (3/7) (4/5) (5/4) (6/4) and (ii) maximal number of bases interrupting 2 SSRs in a compound microsatellite = 100.
The MISA definition of microsatellites was by unit size (x) and minimum number of repeats (y): 1/100, 2/6, 3/5, 4/5, 5/5, 6/5 (x/y).
In financial markets, a lower tick size, which is the minimum unit for the movement of the price of a financial instrument, creates opportunities for identifying arbitrage opportunities (Chordia et al. 2013, Menkveld 2013).
Since the minimum length of TRs is twice the unit size, it is expected to see a trend toward longer repeats for an increasing unit size.
For the purpose of polymorphic marker discovery, additional Class I SSRs were predicted using less stringent criteria: allowing for a SSR unit size of 2-5 bp, a minimum of 75% identity to the SSR unit and a minimum number of five repetitions.
