title: The Caenorhabditis elegans genome contains monomorphic minisatellites and simple sequences.
abstract: Many species have been shown to contain tandemly repeated short sequence DNA known as minisatellites and simple sequence motifs. Due to allelic variation in the copy number of the repeat unit these loci are usually highly polymorphic. Here we demonstrate the presence of sequences in the genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans which are homologous to two sets of short sequence DNA. However, when two independent strains were compared no polymorphism for these sequences could be detected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, TNO Institute for Experimental Gerontology, Rijswijk, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Uitterlinden
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Slagboom
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vijg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002107:Caenorhabditis / Q000235:genetics*; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004276:DNA, Satellite / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015698:Genomic Library; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D015183:Restriction Mapping
chemical_list: D004276:DNA, Satellite; D004247:DNA