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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on July 1, 2007.
Genetics, Vol. 176, 2489-2500, August 2007, Copyright © 2007
doi:10.1534/genetics.107.075424
A Linkage Map Reveals a Complex Basis for Segregation Distortion in an Interpopulation Cross in the Moss Ceratodon purpureus
Stuart F. McDaniel1, John H. Willis and A. Jonathan Shaw
Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708
1 Corresponding author: Biology Department, CB#1137, 1 Brookings Dr., Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130-4889.
E-mail: smcdaniel{at}biology2.wustl.edu
We report the construction of a linkage map for the moss Ceratodon purpureus (n = 13), based on a cross between geographically distant populations, and provide the first experimental confirmation of maternal chloroplast inheritance in bryophytes. From a mapping population of 288 recombinant haploid gametophytes, genotyped at 121 polymorphic AFLP loci, three gene-based nuclear loci, one chloroplast marker, and sex, we resolved 15 linkage groups resulting in a map length of 
730 cM. We estimate that the map covers more than three-quarters of the C. purpureus genome. Approximately 35% of the loci were sex linked, not including those in recombining pseudoautosomal regions. Nearly 45% of the loci exhibited significant segregation distortion (
= 0.05). Several pairs of unlinked distorted loci showed significant deviations from multiplicative genotypic frequencies, suggesting that distortion arises from genetic interactions among loci. The distorted autosomal loci all exhibited an excess of the maternal allele, suggesting that these interactions may involve nuclear–cytoplasmic factors. The sex ratio of the progeny was significantly male biased, and the pattern of nonrandom associations among loci indicates that this results from interactions between the sex chromosomes. These results suggest that even in interpopulation crosses, multiple mechanisms act to influence segregation ratios.
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