RRC ID 479
著者 Sahara K, Yoshido A, Kawamura N, Ohnuma A, Abe H, Mita K, Oshiki T, Shimada T, Asano S, Bando H, Yasukochi Y.
タイトル W-derived BAC probes as a new tool for identification of the W chromosome and its aberrations in Bombyx mori.
ジャーナル Chromosoma
Abstract We isolated four W chromosome-derived bacterial artificial chromosome (W-BAC) clones from Bombyx mori BAC libraries by the polymerase chain reaction and used them as probes for fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) on chromosome preparations from B. mori females. All four W-BAC probes surprisingly highlighted the whole wild-type W sex chromosome and also identified the entire original W-chromosomal region in W chromosome-autosome translocation mutants. This is the first successful identification of a single chromosome by means of BAC-FISH in species with holokinetic chromosomes. Genomic in situ hybridization (GISH) by using female-derived genomic probes highlighted the W chromosome in a similar chromosome-painting manner. Besides the W, hybridization signals of W-BAC probes also occurred in telomeric and/or subtelomeric regions of the autosomes. These signals coincided well with those of female genomic probes except one additional GISH signal that was observed in a large heterochromatin block of one autosome pair. Our results support the opinion that the B. mori W chromosome accumulated transposable elements and other repetitive sequences that also occur, but scattered, elsewhere in the respective genome.
巻・号 112(1)
ページ 48-55
公開日 2003-7-1
DOI 10.1007/s00412-003-0245-5
PMID 12827381
MeSH Animals Bombyx / genetics* Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial / genetics* DNA Probes* Female Gene Library Genome In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence / methods Karyotyping Male Sex Chromosome Aberrations* Sex Chromosomes*
IF 3.442
引用数 53
WOS 分野 GENETICS & HEREDITY BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
リソース情報
カイコ p50