title: Expressed sequence tags for the chicken genome from a normalized, ten-day-old white leghorn whole embryo cDNA library. 2. Comparative DNA sequence analysis of guinea fowl, quail, and turkey genomes.
abstract: Accelerated efforts to develop a high-utility chicken genome map have resulted in the development of resources that may be useful for genetic analysis in other economically important poultry species. Here we describe a total of 26 comparative genomic DNA sequences (CGS) for the guinea fowl, Japanese quail, and domestic turkey developed using 10 primer pairs specific for 10 previously reported, unique, chicken expressed sequence tags (EST). The total length of CGS developed for each of the three species was 4,193, 4,597, and 6,057 bp in quail, turkey, and guinea fowl, respectively. About 70% of the CGS showed significant sequence similarity to reference database sequences, including the reference chicken EST and other avian and nonavian genes. A majority of the between-species comparisons of the CGS from all but two primer pairs were significant and ranged from 81 to 99%. The percentage similarity of the CGS appears to be a function of phylogenetic relatedness and was generally higher for comparisons between the chicken, quail, and turkey and lower between the guinea fowl and chicken, quail, or turkey. Maximum likelihood estimation of the phylogenetic relationships using CGS from two primer pairs also showed a closer relationship, as expected, among chicken, quail, and turkey than between guinea fowl and either chicken, quail, or turkey. Within the guinea fowl, quail, and turkey CGS developed, the total number of single nucleotide polymorphisms detected was 28, 17, and 14, respectively. Together, these resources represent tools that will facilitate genetic analysis of species that have been studied very little and our understanding of their genomes and genome evolution.
authors.affiliation: Comparative Genomics Laboratory, College of Agricultural, Environmental and Natural Sciences, Tuskegee University, Alabama 36088, USA. esmith@vt.edu
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Prevost
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Drummond
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ramlal
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pierce
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Foster
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002642:Chick Embryo; D002645:Chickens / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D003370:Coturnix; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry*; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D016678:Genome; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D011200:Poultry / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D011784:Quail / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014422:Turkeys / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary