title: Chicken microsatellite markers isolated from libraries enriched for simple tandem repeats.
abstract: The total number of microsatellite loci is considered to be at least 10-fold lower in avian species than in mammalian species. Therefore, efficient large-scale cloning of chicken microsatellites, as required for the construction of a high-resolution linkage map, is facilitated by the construction of libraries using an enrichment strategy. In this study, a plasmid library enriched for tandem repeats was constructed from chicken genomic DNA by hybridization selection. Using this technique the proportion of recombinant clones that cross-hybridized to probes containing simple tandem repeats was raised to 16%, compared with < 0.1% in a non-enriched library. Primers were designed from 121 different sequences. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis of two chicken reference pedigrees enabled 72 loci to be localized within the collaborative chicken genetic map, and at least 30 of the remaining loci have been shown to be informative in these or other crosses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Leicester, UK.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gibbs
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Dawson
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McCamley
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Wardle
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Armour
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Burke
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D017931:DNA Primers; D015723:Gene Library; D005819:Genetic Markers; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D005819:Genetic Markers