Table 5

Results from five EST SSR loci tested for variation among a total of 88 individual accessions, including 84 Hawaiian mint accessions and four North American relatives in the genus Stachys.

Unigene ID

Genomic location of SSR

Allele size range

Total no. of alleles

Alleles per individual

Avg. no. of alleles per individual

PIC

260553

coding region (5' of gene)

315–331

6

1–3

1.3

0.334

260708

no hit

173–259

25

1–8

2.5

0.844

260715

3'-UTR

176–188

4

1–4

2.0

0.458

261039

3'-UTR

312–331

5

1–4

2.9

0.773

261064

3'-UTR

221–263

12

1–6

2.9

0.872

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