A third-generation microsatellite-based linkage map of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, and its comparison with the sequence-based physical map

Michel Solignac¹^,2 , Florence Mougel¹^,2 , Dominique Vautrin¹ , Monique Monnerot¹ and Jean-Marie Cornuet³

¹Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes et Spéciation, CNRS, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.

²Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France.

³Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, CS 30016 Montferrier-sur-Lez, F34988 Saint-Gély-du-Fesc, France.

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R66doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-4-r66


Published:	21 May 2007

Subject areas: Genetics, Genome studies, Model organisms, Genetics

Additional files

Additional data file 1:

A PDF file containing a microsatellite-based genetic map of the honey bee, AmelMap3.

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Additional data file 2:

An Excel file containing the linkage map of the honey bee AmelMap3 with the following entries: marker name, genotyped queen(s), genetic distances and cumulative coordinates with Haldane and Kosambi functions, accession numbers of the markers, scaffold number (assembly 4.0), orientation of the scaffolds, block of non-ordered scaffolds, scaffold size and coordinate of our upper primers on the scaffolds, sequence of the upper and lower primers, and data used for centromere mapping. The meaning of the columns and lines in the Excel file are given in the file itself.

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