title: Development and characterization of CATS markers for genetic linkage mapping in the house musk shrew, Suncus murinus.
abstract: To serve as an initial step in developing an ideal genetic marker map for the house musk shrew, Suncus murinus, 318 comparative anchor tagged sequence (CATS) primer pairs were assessed for polymorphism ascertainment and linkage mapping. Of the 112 (35.2%) CATS primer pairs that were successfully amplified by PCR in the shrew, 18 (16.1%) showed polymorphism between two mutant strains, BAN-kc, oeb and WZ. Linkage analysis of the polymorphic CATS markers and three visible mutant genes, kc, oeb and wz, genotyped in a 77 F2 mapping panel from a cross of the two mutant strains, assigned wz and five CATS markers into three linkage groups. Sequence analysis revealed that two (ADA and TXN) out of nine CATS amplified sequences had a total of six deletions of varying sizes and 17 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). BLAST search identified three CATS (ADA, CYP1A2, and TXN) products matching the genes from which they were originally designed, while the remaining six markers could not be identified. Together with the use of the detected SNPs as genetic markers, the five CATS markers linkage mapped in this species will serve as anchors in establishing the first framework map for locating loci affecting all heritable qualitative and quantitative traits in the musk shrew.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Department of Applied Molecular Biosciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Science, Nagoya University, Japan.
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Adjei
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Shigekazu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Eiji
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Kazuaki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Takao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Namikawa
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D017353:Gene Deletion; D005819:Genetic Markers / Q000235:genetics*; D005838:Genotype; D008297:Male; D009154:Mutation; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D016324:Sequence Tagged Sites; D012788:Shrews / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers