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The average marker spacing was 14.27 kb with spacing ranging from 12.68 kb for chromosome 10 to 15.50 kb for chromosome 4 (Additional file 1: Figure S1).
Average marker spacing was 66.5 kb.
The average marker spacing was 2.2 cM.
On this map, the average marker spacing was 2.8 cM.
Average marker spacing was 0.6 cM and total map length was 2305 cM.
The single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker spacing was 0.125 cM, t = 100 and the initial association was complete.
Once the average distance between loci is large enough not to be in strong LD a further decrease in marker spacing is not necessary for the simulation results to be representative.
The order of 40 markers was in perfect agreement with the sequencing data (Figure 3), even where the inter-marker spacing was only a few kilobases (e.g. distance between AR6R-ARM1A; AR6R-ARM1AB).
However, we have noticed that in two LGs (i.e. CcLG02 and CcLG06), a few marker spaces were larger than 20 cM.
From these final informative markers, the average spacing was 353 kb apart, with an average heterozygosity of 28.8%.
Within the different West African populations and at the distance of 70 kb corresponding to our average marker spacing, r2 was close to the asymptotic value (<0.1 in all populations except ND2) which is related to the current effective population size [ 23].
