Faculty Articles
X-chromosome Gene Order in Different Mus Species Crosses
Publication Title
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
ISSN
0070-217X
Publication Date
1-1-1988
Abstract
The advent of molecular genetics heralds a new era in linkage analysis. It is now possible to map any locus and define its linkage relationship within the mammalian genome using a single set of informative offspring. This new mapping methodology, which has been used successfully to map both autosomal genes and sex-linked loci, utilizes naturally occurring polymorphisms at the level of the nucleotide sequence between inbred strains of mice and those derived from the wild species Mus spretus and Mus musculus. In their study of chromosome 4, Nadeau et al. suggested there was a potential rearrangement in gene order between the laboratory mouse and wild-derived M. spretus. Additional data now suggests that there may also be a difference in the arrangement of genes within the t-complex on chromosome 17. The t-complex, however, is quite unusual in that inversional rearrangements have been reported even among closely related M. musculus and M. domesticus populations in the wild. If rearrangements in gene order have occurred between the more evolutionarily divergent Mus species it may limit the usefulness of interspecific crosses for ordering genes within the mouse genome. Structural rearrangements in the genome may be an important mechanism for the maintenance of speciation, since they (i) inhibit illegitimate recombination which might otherwise lead to a loss or duplication of information, and (ii) affect normal chromosomal assortment. If there are such rearrangements among the Mus species, they are not cytogenetically detectable, since karyotypic analysis suggests that there is little, if any, difference in the physical appearance of chromosomes among diverse Mus species. In an attempt to address the issues of (i) interspecies variation in gene order, and (ii) possible differences in relative recombination frequencies within interspecific crosses, such crosses were constructed between the inbred laboratory strain C57BL/6JRos and two different wild-derived Mus species: M. musculus from Denmark and M. spretus. For reasons of historical interest, we began our study by examining markers on the mouse X chromosome. Analysis of major and minor satellite sequences and dispersed repeated elements shows no qualitative differences between these mice and laboratory strains.
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-50059-6_3
Volume
137
Disciplines
Medical Specialties | Medicine and Health Sciences | Osteopathic Medicine and Osteopathy
NSUWorks Citation
Stephenson, Dennis A.; Grant, Stephen G.; Mullins, Linda J.; Scolese, Amy E.; O'Reilly, Amanda J.; and Chapman, Verne M., "X-chromosome Gene Order in Different Mus Species Crosses" (1988). Faculty Articles. 1479.
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