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Bac-End Microsatellites From Intra And Inter-Genic Regions Of The Common Bean Genome And Their Correlation With Cytogenetic Features, Matthew Wohlgemuth Blair, Juana Marcela Córdoba, Claritza Muñóz, Deissy K. Yuyó

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Highly polymorphic markers such as simple sequence repeats (SSRs) or microsatellites are very useful for genetic mapping. In this study novel SSRs were identified in BAC-end sequences (BES) from non-contigged, non-overlapping bacterial artificial clones (BACs) in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). These so called “singleton” BACs were from the G19833 Andean gene pool physical map and the new BES-SSR markers were used for the saturation of the inter-gene pool, DOR364×G19833 genetic map. A total of 899 SSR loci were found among the singleton BES, but only 346 loci corresponded to the single di- or tri-nucleotide motifs that were likely …