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DNA fingerprinting in birds 总被引:16,自引:0,他引:16
Several regions of the human genome are highly variable in populations because the number of repeats in these regions of a short 'minisatellite' sequence varies at high frequency. Different minisatellites have a core sequence in common, however, and probes made up of tandem repeats of this core sequence detect many highly variable DNA fragments in several species including humans, cats, dogs and mice. The hypervariable sequences detected in this way are dispersed in the genome and their variability means that they can be used as a DNA 'fingerprint', providing a novel method for the identification of individuals, confirmation of biological relationships and human genetic analysis. We show here that human minisatellite-derived probes also detect highly variable regions in bird DNAs. Segregation analysis in a house sparrow family confirms that these regions comprise many mostly heterozygous dispersed loci and we conclude that house sparrow DNA fingerprints are analogous to those of humans. Fingerprint analysis identified one nestling, with fingerprint bands not present in the parent pair's fingerprints, which we conclude resulted from an extrapair copulation. Extrabond copulations have been described in many wild bird species, but their success and hence adaptive significance have rarely been quantifiable. DNA fingerprinting will be of great significance to studies of the sociobiology, demography and ecology of wild birds. 相似文献
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Taylor TD Noguchi H Totoki Y Toyoda A Kuroki Y Dewar K Lloyd C Itoh T Takeda T Kim DW She X Barlow KF Bloom T Bruford E Chang JL Cuomo CA Eichler E FitzGerald MG Jaffe DB LaButti K Nicol R Park HS Seaman C Sougnez C Yang X Zimmer AR Zody MC Birren BW Nusbaum C Fujiyama A Hattori M Rogers J Lander ES Sakaki Y 《Nature》2006,440(7083):497-500
Chromosome 11, although average in size, is one of the most gene- and disease-rich chromosomes in the human genome. Initial gene annotation indicates an average gene density of 11.6 genes per megabase, including 1,524 protein-coding genes, some of which were identified using novel methods, and 765 pseudogenes. One-quarter of the protein-coding genes shows overlap with other genes. Of the 856 olfactory receptor genes in the human genome, more than 40% are located in 28 single- and multi-gene clusters along this chromosome. Out of the 171 disorders currently attributed to the chromosome, 86 remain for which the underlying molecular basis is not yet known, including several mendelian traits, cancer and susceptibility loci. The high-quality data presented here--nearly 134.5 million base pairs representing 99.8% coverage of the euchromatic sequence--provide scientists with a solid foundation for understanding the genetic basis of these disorders and other biological phenomena. 相似文献
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