Table 1

Characteristics of BAC libraries used in this study

BAC library
Vector
Cloning site
Number of clones
Mean insert size (kb)
Clone coveragea

EcoRI-BAC
pBACe3.6
EcoRI
36,864
168
13×
BamHI-BAC
pBeloBAC11
BamHI
21,120
165
7.3×
HindIII-BAC
pBAC-lac
HindIII
23,040
125
6.1×

All libraries were constructed with strain p50T using mixed sexes. aTo estimate the genome coverage of each library, we used a genome size of 476 megabases. BAC, bacterial artificial chromosome.

Yamamoto et al. Genome Biology 2008 9:R21   doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-1-r21