title: Identification and characterisation of a melon genomic region containing a resistance gene cluster from a constructed BAC library. Microcolinearity between Cucumis melo and Arabidopsis thaliana.
abstract: A bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library from the dihaploid melon line 'PIT92' was constructed with a 6 times coverage of the haploid melon genome. A contig of four BACs around the MRGH63 resistance gene homologue fragment was created. The complete sequence of a 117-kb BAC clone allowed to determine two clearly defined regions, the first one containing a cluster of three resistance gene homologues. Separated by a retrotransposon, that contains large long terminal repeats, the second region presents a group of genes with a conserved distribution in two regions of the Arabidopsis genome. The detailed analysis of this region provides a description of the gene structure and the presence of repetitive sequences in a defined fragment of the genome of Cucumis melo.
authors.affiliation: Department de Genètica Molecular, Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, CID-CSIC, Jordi Girona 18, 08034, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: van Leeuwen
authors.forename: Amparo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Monfort
authors.forename: Hong-Bin
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Pere
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Puigdomènech
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D022202:Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D032461:Chromosomes, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D028462:Cucumis / Q000235:genetics*; D018744:DNA, Plant / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D017343:Genes, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D018745:Genome, Plant; D015698:Genomic Library; D007113:Immunity, Innate / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family / Q000235:genetics*; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D026801:Synteny
chemical_list: D018744:DNA, Plant