title: Interstitial colocalization of two cervid satellite DNAs involved in the genesis of the Indian muntjac karyotype.
abstract: A number of repetitive DNA clones were generated from PCR amplifications of Indian muntjac genomic DNA using primer sequences derived from a white tailed deer satellite II DNA sequence. One clone (Mmv-0.7) was characterized and shown to be a cervid satellite II DNA clone. Multiple colored FISH studies with cervid satellite I (C5) and this satellite II clone (Mmv-0.7) to Chinese muntjac metaphase chromosomes localized both satellite DNAs at the pericentromeric regions of all chromosomes except for chromosome 3 and the Y chromosome, whereas chromosome 3 exhibited pericentromeric satellite II DNA only. Where distinguishable, the pericentromeric satellite II signals appeared terminally oriented with respect to satellite I. Six pairs of Chinese muntjac autosomes had interstitial satellite I sites with four of these autosomal pairs (chromosomes 1, 2 and two other smaller autosomal pairs) also exhibiting interstitial satellite II signals. An interstitial site on the X chromosome was found to have satellite II signals. For the Indian muntjac chromosomes, FISH studies revealed a pericentromeric hybridization for satellites I and II as well as 27 distinct interstitial hybridization sites, each having at least one of the satellite DNAs. These data were used to more precisely define the chromosome fusion-associated breakpoints that presumably led to the formation of the present-day Indian muntjac karyotype. It further hints at the possibility that the Indian muntjac karyotype may have evolved directly from a 2n = 70 ancestral karyotype rather than from an intermediate 2n = 46 Chinese muntjac-like karyotype.
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences, Chung Shan Medical and Dental College, Taichung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Y C
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sanoudou
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Hseu
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Hsu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002503:Centromere; D002875:Chromosomes / Q000648:ultrastructure; D017931:DNA Primers; D004276:DNA, Satellite; D003670:Deer; D005260:Female; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D007621:Karyotyping; D008297:Male; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018668:Muntjacs; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D004276:DNA, Satellite