Abstract:
:The genetics of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila are richer than for most other eukaryotic cells, because Tetrahymena possesses two genomes: a germline (micronuclear) genome that follows a Mendelian model of genetic transmission and a somatic (macronuclear) genome, derived from the micronuclear genome by fragmentation, which follows a different genetic transmission model called phenotypic assortment. While genetic markers in the micronucleus fall into classical linkage groups under meiotic recombination and segregation, the same markers in the macronucleus fall into coassortment groups (CAGs) under phenotypic assortment by the random distribution of MAC chromosome pieces. We set out to determine whether genomic mapping in the macronucleus by genetic means is feasible. To investigate the relationship between the micronuclear map and coassortment groups, we systematically placed into CAGs all of the markers lying on chromosome 1L that are also found in the macronucleus. Sixteen CAGs were identified, 7 of which contain at least two loci. We have concluded that CAGs represent a fundamental genetic feature of the MAC. The MIC and MAC maps on 1L are colinear; that is, CAGs consist exclusively of markers that map to a continuous segment in a given region of the micronuclear map, with no intervening markers from other CAGs. These findings provide a solid foundation for exploiting the MAC chromosome pieces to build a physical map of the Tetrahymena genome.
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Geneticsjournal_title
Geneticsauthors
Wickert S,Nangle L,Shevel S,Orias Ekeywords:
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2000-03-01 00:00:00pages
1155-67issue
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0016-6731issn
1943-2631journal_volume
154pub_type
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