Near-saturated and complete genetic linkage map of black spruce (Picea mariana).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Genetic maps provide an important genomic resource for understanding genome organization and evolution, comparative genomics, mapping genes and quantitative trait loci, and associating genomic segments with phenotypic traits. Spruce (Picea) genomics work is quite challenging, mainly because of extremely large size and highly repetitive nature of its genome, unsequenced and poorly understood genome, and the general lack of advanced-generation pedigrees. Our goal was to construct a high-density genetic linkage map of black spruce (Picea mariana, 2n = 24), which is a predominant, transcontinental species of the North American boreal and temperate forests, with high ecological and economic importance.

Results

We have developed a near-saturated and complete genetic lin

SUBMITTER: Kang BY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2997009 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature