Linkage maps are essential tools useful for mapping quantitative-trait loci (QTL; Lander and Botstein 1989; Doerge 2002), marker-assisted selection, positional cloning, and genome assembly.
These regressions did not prove useful for mapping.
The map covers the entire assembled genome and is useful for mapping QTLs or genes.
From the perspective of improving crops, a genetic map is useful for map-based gene cloning, analysis of quantitative trait loci (QTL) underlying traits of economic importance, and molecular breeding using marker-assisted selection (MAS) [ 10, 11].
Moreover, the populations used to construct the integrated map include all three watermelon subspecies, making this integrated map useful for the selection of breeding traits, identification of QTL, MAS, analysis of germplasm and commercial hybrid seed detection.
We screened 30,582 BAC end sequences on the catfish physical map for microsatellites useful for linkage mapping and map integration.
The novel QTLs identified are highly useful for fine mapping and map based cloning studies.
Genetic maps that can identify APR genes would be useful for marker-assisted selection (MAS), map-based cloning and detailed molecular characterization in wheat breeding.
We analyzed trait associations at the overall level but also with regard to their underlying QTL and report QTL with major effects useful for marker-assisted selection and map-based cloning.
The established high density genetic maps proved useful for comparative mapping analyses.
