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SUBMITTER: Jiggins CD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1456771 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jiggins Chris D CD Mavarez Jesus J Beltrán Margarita M McMillan W Owen WO Johnston J Spencer JS Bermingham Eldredge E
Genetics 20041016 2
Heliconius melpomene is a mimetic butterfly that exhibits great geographic variation in color pattern. We present here a genetic linkage map based on analysis of genetic markers in 73 individuals from a single F(2) family, offspring of a cross between H. m. cythera from western Ecuador and H. m. melpomene from French Guiana. A novel "three-step method" is described for the analysis of dominant markers in an F(2) cross, using outbred parental strains and taking advantage of the lack of crossing o ...[more]