Poncet Valérie auteur aut IRD Rondeau Myriam auteur aut IRD Tranchant Christine auteur aut IRD Cayrel Anne auteur aut IRD Hamon Serge auteur aut IRD Kochko Alexandre de auteur aut IRD Hamon Perla auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from Coffea canephora leaves and fruits were used to search for types and frequencies of simple sequence repeats (EST-SSRs) with a motif length of 1-6 bp. From a non-redundant (NR) EST set of 5,534 potential unigenes, 6.8% SSR-containing sequences were identified, with an average density of one SSR every 7.73 kb of EST sequences. Trinucleotide repeats were found to be the most abundant (34.34%), followed by di- (25.75%) and hexa-nucleotide (22.04%) motifs. The development of unique genic SSR markers was optimized by a computational approach which allowed us to eliminate redundancy in the original EST set and also to test the specificity of each pair of designed primers. Twenty-five EST-SSRs were developed and used to evaluate cross-species transferability in the Coffea genus. The orthology was supported by the amplicon sequence similarity and the amplification patterns. The > 94% identity of flanking sequences revealed high sequence conservation across the Coffea genus. A high level of polymorphic loci was obtained regardless of the species considered (from 75% for C. liberica to 86% for C. canephora). Moreover, the polymorphism revealed by EST-SSR was similar to that exposed by genomic SSR. It is concluded that Coffea ESTs are a valuable resource for microsatellite mining. EST-SSR markers developed from C. canephora sequences can be easily transferred to other Coffea species for which very little molecular information is available. They constitute a set of conserved orthologous markers, which would be ideal for assessing genetic diversity in coffee trees as well as for cross-referencing transcribed sequences in comparative genomics studies. specialized SSR mining EST SSR Coffea transferability genetic variation 076 276 5 436-449 2006 1617-4615 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010037624 10.1007/s00438-006-0153-5 1617-4615 [F A010037624] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010037624 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2006/10/010037624.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2006-10-06 2017-08-23 fdi:010037624 fre