Table 4 Mapping statistics for sea bass BAC-ES comparatively mapped to the stickleback chromosomes XV to XXI.

stickleback chromosome size [bp]

16,198,764

18,115,788

14,603,141

16,282,716

20,240,660

19,732,071

11,717,487

genetic linkage group sea bass

LG13

LG15

LG1?

LG17

LG6

LG16/18?

LG18?

B

sea bass BAC-contigs

20 (29)

24 (38)

30 (30)

35 (43)

38 (43)

22 (35)

9 (17)

largest BAC-contig [bp]

3,426,120 (1,723,928)

6,616,511 (2,444,746)

3,516,936 (2,019,946)

1,934,982 (1,280,086)

2,450,075 (2,125,025)

7,220,725 (2,296,377)

4,139,228 (2,305,187)

% of chr. covered by BAC-contigs

89.3% (82.5%)

88.4% (79.0%)

88.5% (78.7%)

83.6% (70.6%)

86.6% (78.2%)

90.3% (82.8%)

87.4% (83.3%)

number of BACs in min. tiling path

156 (150)

182 (167)

163 (138)

170 (143)

206 (185)

194 (178)

111 (116)

paired end aligned consistent BACs

969 (619)

916 (533)

784 (459)

783 (373)

1,004 (628)

1,077 (639)

639 (393)

one end aligned BACs

1,017 (1,057)

1,163 (1,162)

1,110 (1,145)

989 (1,040)

1,204 (1,187)

1,178 (1,183)

693 (691)

C

inconsistently aligned same chr.

73 (96)

47 (74)

37 (34)

68 (78)

104 (128)

30 (46)

7 (10)

potential intra-chr. rearrangements between stickleback and sea bass

10

8

6

12

14

8

2

intra-chr. rearrangements also found between medaka and stickleback

9

4

4

6

8

6

2

BAC-contigs with same neighbour in medaka as in stickleback

3

7

4

9

7

3

4

D

total annotated genes in ensembl

779

799

698

761

1,037

927

460

% genes covered by BAC-contigs

87.9% (84.1%)

88.5% (80.4%)

85.5% (77.4%)

82.7% (69.5%)

82.5% (75.5%)

89.5% (85.1%)

93.9% (86.7%)