Construction of a high-resolution genetic linkage map and comparative genome analysis for the reef-building coral Acropora millepora.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Worldwide, coral reefs are in decline due to a range of anthropogenic disturbances, and are now also under threat from global climate change. Virtually nothing is currently known about the genetic factors that might determine whether corals adapt to the changing climate or continue to decline. Quantitative genetics studies aiming to identify the adaptively important genomic loci will require a high-resolution genetic linkage map. The phylogenetic position of corals also suggests important applications for a coral genetic map in studies of ancestral metazoan genome architecture.

Results

We constructed a high-resolution genetic linkage map for the reef-building coral Acropora millepora, the first genetic map reported for any coral, or any non-Bilaterian animal. More

SUBMITTER: Wang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3091320 | biostudies-literature | 2009

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature