Abstract
Nontandem segmental duplications provide a useful alternative to conventional recombination mapping for determining gene order in a haploid organism such asNeurospora. When an insertional or terminal rearrangement is crossed by Normal sequence, a class of progeny is produced that have a precisely delimited chromosome segment duplicated. In such Duplication progeny, a recessive gene in the Normal-sequence donor chromosome may or may not be masked (“covered”) by its dominant wild-type allele in the translocation-sequence recipient chromosome. Coverage depends upon whether the gene in question is left or right of the rearrangement breakpoint. The recessive gene will be heterozygous and covered (not expressed) if its locus is within the duplicated segment, but it will be haploid and expressed if the locus is outside the segment. Not only genes but also centromeres can be mapped by means of duplications, because genes included in. the same viable duplication must reside in the same chromosome arm. - Numerous sequences in the current genetic maps ofN. crassa have been determined using duplications. Gene order in the albino region and in the centromere region of linkage group I provide examples. Over 50 insertional or terminal rearrangements are available from which nontandem duplications of defined content can be obtained at will; collectively these cover about 75% of the genome. - Intercrosses between partially overlapping chromosome rearrangements also produce Duplication progeny containing two copies of regions between the breakpoints. The 180 mapped reciprocal translocations and inversions include numerous overlapping combinations that can be used for duplication mapping.
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Perkins, D.D. Determining the order of genes, centromeres, and rearrangement breakpoints inNeurospora by tests of duplication coverage. J. Genet. 65, 121–144 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02931146
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