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A novel linkage map of sugarcane with evidence for clustering of retrotransposon-based markers

Alessandra C Palhares1, Taislene B Rodrigues-Morais1, Marie-Anne Van Sluys2, Douglas S Domingues2,3, Walter Maccheroni4,5, Hamilton Jordão4,5, Anete P Souza6, Thiago G Marconi6, Marcelo Mollinari1, Rodrigo Gazaffi1, Antonio Augusto F Garcia1 and Maria Lucia C Vieira1*

1 Departamento de Genética, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Universidade de São Paulo, 13418-900, Piracicaba, Brazil

2 Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090, São Paulo, Brazil

3 Present address: Laboratório de Biotecnologia Vegetal, Instituto Agronômico do Paraná, 86047-902, Londrina, Brazil

4 CanaVialis/Monsanto Co, Condomínio Techno Park, 13069-380, Campinas, Brazil

5 Present address: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, 20020-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

6 Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genética, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-875, Campinas, Brazil

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BMC Genetics 2012, 13:51 doi:10.1186/1471-2156-13-51

Published: 28 June 2012

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Additional file 1:

Amplification patterns obtained from AFLP, EST-SSR, and scIvana_1 -based markers for the sugarcane mapping population. Several segregating alleles are shown, as well as molecular weight standard (lane M) fragment sizes. Codes correspond to parental and F1-progeny genotypes.

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Additional file 2:

Genetic information provided by the AFLP, EST-SSR and the retrotransposon scIvana_1- based loci.

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