THE GENOME OF ZEA-MAYS, ITS ORGANIZATION AND HOMOLOGY TO RELATED GRASSES
THE GENOME OF ZEA-MAYS, ITS ORGANIZATION AND HOMOLOGY TO RELATED GRASSES
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00327318
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
WALBOT, V
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作者:
HAKE, S;WALBOT, V
The pattern of genome organization of Z. mays was analyzed, and the relationship of maize to possible progenitor species assessed by DNA:DNA hybridization. Reassociation of 470 and 1350 bp [base pair] fragments of maize DNA to various COt [initial concentration of DNA in moles of nucleotides per liter .times. time in seconds] values demonstrates that the genome is composed of 3 major kinetic classes: highly repetitive, mid-repetitive, and unique. Mini-COt curves of the repetitive sequences at short fragment length indicate that the highly repetitive sequence class is 20% of the genome and is present at an average reiteration frequency of 800,000 copies; the mid-repetitive sequence class is 40% of the genome and is present at an average reiteration frequency of 1000 copies. Thermal denaturation studies show that the highly repetitive sequences are 12% divergent and mid-repetitive sequences are 6% divergent. Most of the genome is organized in 2 interspersion patterns. One, approximately 1/3 of the genome, is composed of unique sequences of average length 2100 bp interspersed with mid-repetitive sequences; the other, also 1/3 of the genome, is mid-repetitive sequences interspersed with highly repetitive sequences. The repetitive sequences are 500-1000 bp by EM measurement. The remaining third of the genome is unique sequences farther than 5000 bp from a palindromic or repetitive sequence. Hybridization of maize DNA from Midwestern Dent to popcorn and related grasses indicates that both the unique and repetitive sequence elements have diverged. Teosinte and popcorn are approximately equally divergent from Midwestern Dent whereas Tripsacum is much more divergent. The divergence times calculated from the depression of Tm [melting point] in heterologous duplexes indicate that the divergence within Z. mays and between maize and near relatives is at least an order of magnitude greater than expected. This high degree of divergence may reflect the pressures of domestication of maize.