Table 1.
Number and Type of Loci on Chicken Linkage Maps
| WAU | EL | C | Consensus Map | |
| A. Loci | ||||
| WAU | 1011 | 290 | 119 | 923 |
| EL | 290 | 1068 | 195 | 1050 |
| C | 119 | 195 | 447 | 428 |
| Type I loci | 93 | 252 | 107 | 350 |
| Linkage groups | 34 | 42 | 36 | 50 |
| B. Markers | ||||
| Microsatellite | 573 | 479 | 190 | 801 |
| Minisatellite | — | 34 | 30 | 40 |
| RFLP | — | 92 | 191 | 244 |
| AFLP | 350 | 202 | — | 552 |
| SSCP | — | 50 | 15 | 59 |
| ASO | — | 71 | 1 | 71 |
| RAPD | — | 65 | — | 65 |
| CR1 | — | 47 | — | 47 |
| Classical | — | 10 | 2 | 10 |
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(A) The total number of different loci analyzed on the Wageningen (WAU), East Lansing (EL), and Compton (C) linkage maps, as well as the number of loci that are shared among the different maps. (B) The different types of markers on the different chicken linkage maps. Included are loci located on the consensus linkage map, as in Fig. 1.
