ANALYSIS OF THE CONSTANCY OF DNA SEQUENCES DURING DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF THE NEMATODE CAENORHABDITIS-ELEGANS
ANALYSIS OF THE CONSTANCY OF DNA SEQUENCES DURING DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF THE NEMATODE CAENORHABDITIS-ELEGANS
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.76.3.1333
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
HIRSH, D
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作者:
EMMONS, SW;KLASS, MR;HIRSH, D
The occurrence of rearrangements in DNA during development and the rate of DNA divergence during evolution were studied. DNA restriction fragments from sperm cells and somatic cells of C. elegans var. Bristol, from somatic tissues of C. elegans var. Bergerac and from C. briggsae were compared. Restriction fragments were detected by hybridizing radioactive cloned fragments to restriction digests that had been fractionated by size on agarose gels and transferred to nitrocellulose sheets. In this way, approximately 50 BamHI restriction fragments were visualized and compared. Fragments from sperm and somatic DNA were identical; 15% differed in size between the 2 strains. Little cross homology was found between the 2 spp. If rearrangements occur in C. elegans DNA during development, they must affect fewer than a few percent of the restriction fragments or restriction sites. The difference found between the 2 strains and the 2 spp. is surprisingly great.