A BAC-based integrated linkage map of the silkworm Bombyx mori

Kimiko Yamamoto^*¹ , Junko Nohata^*¹ , Keiko Kadono-Okuda^*¹ , Junko Narukawa¹ , Motoe Sasanuma¹ , Shun-ichi Sasanuma¹ , Hiroshi Minami² , Michihiko Shimomura² , Yoshitaka Suetsugu¹ , Yutaka Banno³ , Kazutoyo Osoegawa⁴ , Pieter J de Jong⁴ , Marian R Goldsmith⁵ and Kazuei Mita¹

¹Insect Genome Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Owashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8634, Japan

²Genome Project Department, Tsukuba Bank, Mitsubishi Space Software Co., Ltd, Takezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan

³Laboratory of Insect Genetic Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, Kushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan

⁴Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, 52nd Street, Oakland, California 94609, USA

⁵Biological Sciences Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881-0816, USA

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

Genome Biology 2008, 9:R21doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-1-r21


Published:	28 January 2008

Subject areas: Evolution, Genetics, Genome studies

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Additional data file 1:

Columns 1 and 2 list the chromosome number and positional information of each SNP marker, respectively. Columns 4 and 5 list PCR primer sequences designed from BAC ends (column 7) for SNP analysis. Columns 10 and higher list ESTs identified in end sequences of BAC markers by homology search.

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Additional data file 2:

Column 1 lists the contig identification number (ID). Columns 2 and 3 list the contig size and number of BAC clones assigned to a contig, respectively. The remaining columns list the BAC clones composing each contig.

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Additional data file 3:

Columns 1 and 2 list the Bombyx cDNA clone name and accession number, respectively. Column 3 lists the LG on which the gene is located. Columns 4 and 5 list the accession number of the Apis ortholog and its LG, respectively, and columns 6 and 7 list the accession number and LG for corresponding orthologs of Tribolium. Columns 8, 9, and 10 list the procedure used for mapping each gene in Bombyx.

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