title: Sequence and analysis of the tomato JOINTLESS locus.
abstract: A 119-kb bacterial artificial chromosome from the JOINTLESS locus on the tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) chromosome 11 contained 15 putative genes. Repetitive sequences in this region include one copia-like LTR retrotransposon, 13 simple sequence repeats, three copies of a novel type III foldback transposon, and four putative short DNA repeats. Database searches showed that the foldback transposon and the short DNA repeats seemed to be associated preferably with genes. The predicted tomato genes were compared with the complete Arabidopsis genome. Eleven out of 15 tomato open reading frames were found to be colinear with segments on five Arabidopsis bacterial artificial chromosome/P1-derived artificial chromosome clones. The synteny patterns, however, did not reveal duplicated segments in Arabidopsis, where over half of the genome is duplicated. Our analysis indicated that the microsynteny between the tomato and Arabidopsis genomes was still conserved at a very small scale but was complicated by the large number of gene families in the Arabidopsis genome.
authors.affiliation: Clemson University Genomics Institute, 100 Jordan Hall, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Begum
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Goff
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Wing
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D018744:DNA, Plant; D015723:Gene Library; D017343:Genes, Plant; D018745:Genome, Plant; D018551:Solanum lycopersicum / Q000235:genetics*; D026161:MADS Domain Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D018626:Retroelements; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D018744:DNA, Plant; C118233:J protein, Lycopersicon esculentum; D026161:MADS Domain Proteins; D010940:Plant Proteins; D018626:Retroelements