Table 1.

BAC libraries fingerprinted for the tilapia physical map. Construction of these BAC libraries is described in Katagiri et al. [16]. Copies of the libraries are available as plates and filters from http://hcgs.unh.edu/BAC/.

Library	Cloning site	Vector	Mean insert size (kb)	No. of clones fingerprinted	Valid bands per clone	Genome coverage
HCGS-03TI	HindIII	pBAC-lac	145	18,700	53.9	2.56
HCGS-04TI	HindIII	pBAC-lac	194	16,545	69.8	3.02
	Total		182	35,245	61.4	5.58