Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on July 27, 2008.

Genetics, Vol. 179, 2045-2060, August 2008, Copyright © 2008
doi:10.1534/genetics.107.083840

Comparative Genetic Mapping Between Octoploid and Diploid Fragaria Species Reveals a High Level of Colinearity Between Their Genomes and the Essentially Disomic Behavior of the Cultivated Octoploid Strawberry

Mathieu Rousseau-Gueutin^*, Estelle Lerceteau-Köhler^,1, Laure Barrot, Daniel James Sargent, Amparo Monfort, David Simpson, Pere Arús, Guy Guérin^* and Béatrice Denoyes-Rothan^*,2

^* Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UREF, BP81, INRA, UR 419, 33883, Villenave d'Ornon Cedex, France Ciref CVFFR, Maison Jeanette, Douville, France East Malling Research, New Road, East Malling, Kent ME19 6BJ, United Kingdom and IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica, Carretera de Cabrils Km2, E-08348, Cabrils (Barcelona), Spain

² Corresponding author: INRA, UREF, UR 419, 33883, Villenave d'Ornon Cedex, France.
E-mail: denoyes{at}bordeaux.inra.fr

Macrosynteny and colinearity between Fragaria (strawberry) species showing extreme levels of ploidy have been studied through comparative genetic mapping between the octoploid cultivated strawberry (F. xananassa) and its diploid relatives. A comprehensive map of the octoploid strawberry, in which almost all linkage groups are ranged into the seven expected homoeologous groups was obtained, thus providing the first reference map for the octoploid Fragaria. High levels of conserved macrosynteny and colinearity were observed between homo(eo)logous linkage groups and between the octoploid homoeologous groups and their corresponding diploid linkage groups. These results reveal that the polyploidization events that took place along the evolution of the Fragaria genus and the more recent juxtaposition of two octoploid strawberry genomes in the cultivated strawberry did not trigger any major chromosomal rearrangements in genomes involved in F. xananassa. They further suggest the existence of a close relationship between the diploid Fragaria genomes. In addition, despite the possible existence of residual levels of polysomic segregation suggested by the observation of large linkage groups in coupling phase only, the prevalence of linkage groups in coupling/repulsion phase clearly demonstrates that the meiotic behavior is mainly disomic in the cultivated strawberry.

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