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Development of chromosome-specific markers with high polymorphism for allotetraploid cotton based on genome-wide characterization of simple sequence repeats in diploid cottons (Gossypium arboreum L. and Gossypium raimondii Ulbrich).
BMC genomics - 6 Feb 2015
Lu Cairui, Zou Changsong, Zhang Youping, Yu Daoqian, Cheng Hailiang, Jiang Pengfei, Yang Wencui, Wang Qiaolian, Feng Xiaoxu, Prosper Mtawa Andrew, Guo Xiaoping, Song Guoli
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Tetraploid cotton contains two sets of homologous chromosomes, the At- and Dt-subgenomes. Consequently, many markers in cotton were mapped to multiple positions during linkage genetic map construction, posing a challenge to anchoring linkage groups and mapping economically-important genes to particular chromosomes. Chromosome-specific markers could solve this problem. Recently, the genomes of two...
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