A physical map of the Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima) genome and its integration with the genetic map

Three Chinese chestnut bacterial artificial chromo- some (BAC) libraries were developed and used for physical map construction. Specifically, high information content fingerprinting was used to assemble 126,445 BAC clones into 1,377 contigs and 12,919 singletons. Integration of the dense Chinese chestnut genetic map with the physical map was