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| Cover | 1 |
| Copyright | 2 |
| Content | 3 |
| Title | 4 |
| Abstract | 4 |
| Keywords | 4 |
| Background | 4 |
| 1 Results and Discussion | 5 |
| 1.1 Matching of mapped wESTs with brachypodium genome sequences itice | 5 |
| 1.2 Syntenic relationship of individual wheat conse- nsus chromosomes with brachypodium chromosomes | 6 |
| 1.2.1 Wheat consensus chromosome 1 (WC1) | 6 |
| 1.2.2 Wheat consensus chromosome 2 (WC2) | 7 |
| 1.2.3 Wheat consensus chromosome 3 (WC3) Gen | 7 |
| 1.2.4 Wheat consensus chromosome 4 (WC4) | 7 |
| 1.2.5 Wheat consensus chromosome 5 (WC5) | 7 |
| 1.2.6 Wheat consensus chromosome 6 (WC6) | 7 |
| 1.2.7 Wheat consensus chromosome 7 (WC7) | 8 |
| 1.3 Consensus chromosome bins containing high density of ESTs showing homology with brachy- podium | 8 |
| 1.4 Colinear syntenic regions/blocks between wheat and brachypodium genomes | 8 |
| 1.5 Divergence between wheat-brachypodium ho- mologs e Gen | 9 |
| 1.6 Comparison of wheat and brachypodium geno- mes in relation to the intermediate ancestral genome | 9 |
| 1.7 Wheat ESTs uniquely mapped to specific bins in wheat and their use for inferring relation with brachypodium genome | 11 |
| 1.8 Comparison of wheat-brachypodium synteny with previously reported wheat-rice synteny eae Ge | 11 |
| 2 Conclusions | 11 |
| 3 Materials and Methods | 12 |
| 3.1 Sequences used for synteny analysis | 12 |
| 3.2 Criteria used for sequence comparisons nom | 12 |
| 3.3 Construction of consensus map of wheat genome | 12 |
| 3.4 Identification of centromere location | 13 |
| 3.5 Estimation of EST density | 13 |
| 3.6 Estimation of nonsynonymous vs. synonymous substitution rates (Ka/Ks) Geno | 13 |
| Authors' Contributions | 13 |
| Acknowledgements | 13 |
| References onal P | 13 |
| Figure 1 | 6 |
| Figure 2 | 9 |
| Figure 3 | 10 |
| Figure 4 | 12 |
| Table 1 | 16 |
| Table 2 | 11 |
| Supplementary Table 1 | 18-19 |
| Supplementary Table 2 | 49 |
| Supplementary Table 3 | 50 |
| Supplementary Table 4 | 58 |
| Supplementary Table 5 | 60 |
| Untitled | 64 |