A 'consensus' cotton genetic map built from the At, Dt and D genome genetic maps contains 13 homologous groups made up of 3016 loci based on 2337 unique sequence tags [ 14].
A high degree of collinearity among the respective genome types permitted inference of the gene order of a hypothetical common ancestor of the At, Dt, and D genomes for 3016 loci identified by 2337 probes, spanning 2324.7 cM [ 14].
For all of the annotated genes in the D-genome reference, an alignment of A, AT, DT, and D-genomes was created, from which the amount of molecular evolution between the A-genomes and D-genomes of cotton was calculated (Table 3).
Markers across the genome with the largest absolute effects corresponding to setting a corrected p-value for multiple comparisons to P < 0.001, within each trait, were selected for further investigation and comparison, this effectively corresponded to approximately one hundred markers for each trait (112, 104, 108, 87, 71, 73, for MMF, TMT, AVGF, TP, AT, DT, respectively).
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Of those, 382 AT-DT gene pairs contained homoeo-SNPs and had significant expression bias based on read counts of each homoeolog.
Four genes, Pel, RacA, Exp and Sus1, in TM-1, and five genes, Pel, CIPK1, 14-3-3L, CelA3nd CelA3, in Hai7124, yielded higher Ka/Ks ratios in A-At, D-Dt and At-Dt comparisons than in the A-D comparison, indicating that selection for some genes related with fiber development had acted at the tetraploid level.
The first strategy was to use the subgenome-specific markers to separate contigs to subgenome At or Dt.
Distribution of the QTLs between the At and Dt subgenomes was biased, with the Dt subgenome containing more QTLs (211) than the At (184).
Results from our studies on the distribution patterns of the fiber development genes and transcription factors between the At and Dt subgenomes showed that more transcription factors were from Dt subgenome than At, whereas more fiber development genes were from At subgenome than Dt.
