title: Differential organization of a LINE-1 family in Indian pygmy field mice.
abstract: Southern blot hybridization analysis of genomic DNAs digested with restriction endonuclease EcoR I and Ava II from Mus musculus domesticus, Mus booduga and Mus terricolor with a cloned repetitive DNA fragment of Mus booduga as a probe showed difference in restriction pattern of this DNA in these three species. Further Southern analysis of the BamH I digested genomic DNAs from these species hybridized with cloned DNA fragment as a probe and sequencing of the cloned DNA revealed that this 252 bp cloned DNA fragment is a part of BamHI repeat element of genus Mus and is 87% homologous to the contiguous portion of the Mus musculus domesticus LINE-1 element. The species specific fragment pattern generated by different restriction endonucleases using this DNA as a probe revealed difference in the organization of LINE-1 repetitive element in the three species of genus Mus.
authors.affiliation: Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, India. chatterb@nhlbi.nih.gov
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bahadur
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sharma
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D020084:Long Interspersed Nucleotide Elements; D051379:Mice / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D004247:DNA