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BMC Plant Biology BioMed Central Research article Open Access Synteny conservation between two distantly-related Rosaceae genomes: Prunus (the stone fruits) and Fragaria (the strawberry) 1,3 2 1 1 Santiago Vilanova , Daniel J Sargent , Pere Arús and Amparo Monfort* Address: 1IRTA. Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica CSIC-IRTA-UAB, 08348 Cabrils, Spain, 2East Malling Research (EMR), East Malling, Kent, ME19 6BJ, UK and 3Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Centro de Conservación y Mejora de la Agrodiversidad Valenciana (COMAV), Spain Email: Santiago Vilanova - sanvina@upvnet.upv.es; Daniel J Sargent - dan.sargent@emr.ac.uk; Pere Arús - pere.arus@irta.es; Amparo Monfort* - amparo.monfort@irta.es * Corresponding author Published: 18 June 2008 Received: 31 October 2007 Accepted: 18 June 2008 BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:67 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-8-67 This article is available from: /1471-2229/8/67 © 2008 Vilanova et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The Rosaceae encompass a large number of economically-important diploid and polyploid fruit and ornamental species in many different genera. The basic chromosome numbers of these