title: Genome Wide SSR High Density Genetic Map Construction from an Interspecific Cross of Gossypium hirsutum × Gossypium tomentosum.
abstract: A high density genetic map was constructed using F2 population derived from an interspecific cross of G. hirsutum × G. tomentosum. The map consisted of 3093 marker loci distributed across all the 26 chromosomes and covered 4365.3 cM of cotton genome with an average inter-marker distance of 1.48 cM. The maximum length of chromosome was 218.38 cM and the minimum was 122.09 cM with an average length of 167.90 cM. A sub-genome covers more genetic distance (2189.01 cM) with an average inter loci distance of 1.53 cM than D sub-genome which covers a length of 2176.29 cM with an average distance of 1.43 cM. There were 716 distorted loci in the map accounting for 23.14% and most distorted loci were distributed on D sub-genome (25.06%), which were more than on A sub-genome (21.23%). In our map 49 segregation hotspots (SDR) were distributed across the genome with more on D sub-genome as compared to A genome. Two post-polyploidization reciprocal translocations of "A2/A3 and A4/A5" were suggested by seven pairs of duplicate loci. The map constructed through these studies is one of the three densest genetic maps in cotton however; this is the first dense genome wide SSR interspecific genetic map between G. hirsutum and G. tomentosum.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesAnyang, China; Plant Breeding and Genetics Division, Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and BiologyFaisalabad, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Muhammad K R
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesAnyang, China; Cotton Sciences Research Institute of Hunan/National Hybrid Cotton Research Promotion CenterChangde, China.
authors.forename: Haodong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Anyang, China.
authors.forename: Zhongli
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesAnyang, China; National Agricultural Research CentreIslamabad, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Muhammad K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Ilyas
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Anyang, China.
authors.forename: Xingxing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Anyang, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Anyang, China.
authors.forename: Chunying
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Anyang, China.
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Anyang, China.
authors.forename: Kunbo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wang
keywords: Gossypium tomentosum; SSR primer pairs; genetic map; interspecific cross; wild cotton