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minisatellite

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Several methods have been described by different research groups to investigate intraspecies variation within the genus Cryptosporidium, including microsatellite sequence analysis (9-12), minisatellite and microsatellite PCR fragment length analysis (13,14), single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis (15), gp60 sequence analysis (16,17), and telomere sequence analysis (18,19).
It consists of a menagerie of strange entities called pseudogenes, retropseudogenes, satellites, minisatellites, microsatellites, transposons, and retrotransposons: all collectively known as 'junk DNA.
The researchers studied gene segments known as minisatellite loci, repeating patterns of roughly 5 to 45 bases, the units that make up DNA.
 
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