Radiation hybrid maps of the D-genome of Aegilops tauschii and their application in sequence assembly of large and complex plant genomes

Table 1 Summary of AL8/78 D-genome-RH panel characterization

Chrom.	Average marker loss (%)	Obligate breaks/line^a	Deletions/line^b	Max. no of obligate breaks	Average deletion size (Mb)^c
1D	14.46	3.01 (536)	1.60 (284)	16	42.8 (1–604)
2D	11.76	2.97 (529)	1.56 (278)	15	55.4 (0.9-578.3)
3D	10.31	4.53 (806)	2.43 (432)	20	36.7 (0.8-652.2)
4D	13.57	2.30 (409)	1.428 (227)	10	63.3 (1.3-497.4)
5D	11.56	3.24 (576)	1.71 (304)	17	53.4 (1.0-748.0)
6D	11.54	3.73 (664)	1.99 (355)	17	39.0 (0.9-683.4)
7D	13.00	6.56 (1,167)	3.38 (601)	25	27.3 (0.4-692.5)
D-genome	11.70	26.33 (4,687)	13.94 (2,481)	97	42.0 (0.4-748)

^aNumber in parenthesis is the total number of obligate breaks in a panel of 178 RH lines
^bNumber in parenthesis is the total number of deletions in a panel of 178 RH lines
^cNumber in parenthesis is the range of deletion size

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