Description of durum wheat linkage map and comparative sequence analysis of wheat mapped DArT markers with rice and Brachypodium genomes.

Background: The importance of wheat to the world economy, together with progresses in high-throughput next-generation DNA sequencing, have accelerated initiatives of genetic research for wheat improvement. The availability of high density linkage maps is crucial to identify genotype-phenotype associations, but also for anchoring BAC contigs to genetic maps, a strategy followed for sequencing the wheat genome.

Results: Here we report a genetic linkage map in a durum wheat segregating population and the study of mapped DArT markers.

Erratum to: A novel frameshift mutation in exon 12 of the adenomatous polyposis coli gene in an Italian family with familial adenomatous polyposis and desmoid tumour.

[This corrects the article on p. 235 in vol. 4, PMID: 20589194.

In vitro regulation of beta1 and beta3 integrin subunits in endometrial epithelial cells from normal endometrium.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) on integrin expression. DESIGN Cultures of endometrial epithelial cells from normal endometrium.

Setting: All endometrial specimens were obtained from the Obstetrics and gynecology Department of the Catholic University, Rome, Italy.