Biochemical Genetics

, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp 261–277 | Cite as

DNA reassociation kinetics of closely related species

  • A. V. Rake
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Abstract

The kinetics of reassociation of the DNA of three groups of closely related organisms were examined. The laboratory mouse was compared to an Asiatic mouse, whose chromosome number is the same but whose chromosome organization is different. Chinese hamster (2N=22) was compared to Syrian hamster (2N=44), and Haplopappus gracilis (2N=4) was compared to H. ravenit (2N=8). It was found that the most highly repeated DNA fractions of the three comparative sets of organisms differ in their reaction rates. However, these fractions of the related hamsters, haplopappi, and probably the mice, do not differ in the amount of DNA composing the fractions. The intermediately fast reassociating DNA and the unique DNA do not differ between members of related pairs of organisms. The implication of these results is that a short sequence of DNA may be highly copied in one organism, while in a related organism a longer DNA sequence is repeated a fewer number of times, and the total amount of repeated DNA may be the same in both related organisms.

Key words

deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) reassociation kinetics related species 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • A. V. Rake
    • 1
  1. 1.Biophysics DepartmentThe Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park

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