In order to make full use of the EST resources in the present database to develop the goat molecular markers for genetic diversity study and molecular marker-assistant selection,13 497 goat EST sequences from NCBI database were analyzed by cluster analysis,and 1 999 contigs and 5 182 singlets were obtained.Then they were analyzed for SSRs by software MISA.483 microsatellite sequences were identified,which amounted to 6.7% of the total uni-ESTs.The average distance distribution of EST-SSRs was 10 kb and the ...