title: Genetic linkage mapping of zebrafish genes and ESTs.
abstract: Genetic screens in zebrafish (Danio rerio) have isolated mutations in hundreds of genes essential for vertebrate development, physiology, and behavior. We have constructed a genetic linkage map that will facilitate the identification of candidate genes for these mutations and allow comparisons among the genomes of zebrafish and other vertebrates. On this map, we have localized 771 zebrafish genes and expressed sequence tags (ESTs) by scoring single-stranded conformational polymorphisms (SSCPs) in a meiotic mapping panel. Of these sequences, 642 represent previously unmapped genes and ESTs. The mapping panel was comprised of 42 homozygous diploid individuals produced by heat shock treatment of haploid embryos at the one-cell stage (HS diploids). This "doubled haploid" strategy combines the advantages of mapping in haploid and standard diploid systems, because heat shock diploid individuals have only one allele at each locus and can survive to adulthood, enabling a relatively large quantity of genomic DNA to be prepared from each individual in the mapping panel. To integrate this map with others, we also scored 593 previously mapped simple-sequence length polymorphisms (SSLPs) in the mapping panel. This map will accelerate the molecular analysis of zebrafish mutations and facilitate comparative analysis of vertebrate genomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: I G
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Woods
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ngo-Hazelett
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cardozo
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kimm
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Y L
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Abagyan
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Schier
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Postlethwait
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Talbot
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D004171:Diploidy; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D005819:Genetic Markers / Q000235:genetics; D006720:Homozygote; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D015027:Zebrafish / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers