“…Among trinucleotide SSRs, the (AAT) n motif was the most predominant in C. nucifera, C. simplicifolius, and E. guineensis, and consistent with reports from garden asparagus (Li et al 2016), cucumber (Cavagnaro et al 2010), pineapple (Fang et al 2016), and Medicago truncatula and Populus trichocarpa (Sonah et al 2011). The (AAG) n was the dominant trinucleotide motif in P. dactylifera and E. oleifera, similar to previous reports in Arabidopsis thaliana (Sonah et al 2011) and Brassica species (Shi et al 2013). The AT-rich motifs (AAAT) n , (AAAG) n , (AATT) n , (AAAAT) n , (AAAAG) n , (AATAT) n , (AAATT) n , (AAAAAT) n , (ACATAT) n , and (AAAAAG) n were the most abundant tetra-, penta-and hexanucleotide SSRs in the five palm genomes.…”