Synteny of Prunus and other model plant species

BMC Genomics

Table 2 Characteristics of syntenic blocks conserved between Prunus map anchored sequences and Arabidopsis or Populus.

	# of syntenic regions		# collinear groups	# gene pairs	Length¹ (Populus or Arabidopsis)	Length¹ (Prunus)	Median E value
	before the merge	after the merge
*Prunus-genetic/Populus (gP)*	8	8	8	4–5	424 kb – 3.26 Mb	5.1 – 15.7 cM² (2.8 – 8.6 Mb)	5.00E-48
*Prunus-genetic/Arabidopsis (gA)*	18	17	16	4–7	197 kb – 1 Mb	4.6 – 15.7 cM² (2.5 – 8.6 Mb)	1.00E-44
*peach-physical/Populus (pP)*	10	10	10	4	158 kb – 1.1 Mb	76–346³ (95 – 432.5 kb)	3.00E-51
*peach-physical/Arabidopsis (pA)*	20	17	14	4–9	42–812 kb	65–427³ (81.3 – 533.8 kb)	2.00E-39

¹Range of the lengths of the syntenic blocks.
²Numbers in parenthesis are the approximate lengths in peach genome, calculated from the TxE map size 524 cM [39] and the peach genome size 290 Mb[43].
³One unit length of the BAC contig corresponds to about 1.25 kb (See Methods).

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