Abstract
We compared the organization of satellite DNA (stDNA) and its chromosomal allocation inMus domesticus and inMus musculus. The two stDNAs show similar restriction fragment profiles after digestion (probed withM. domesticus stDNA) with some endonucleases of which restriction sequences are present in the 230–240 bp repetitive unit of theM. domesticus stDNA. In contrast, EcoRI digestion reveals thatM. musculus stDNA lacks most of the GAATTC restriction sites, particularly at the level of the half-monomer. The chromosome distribution of stDNA (revealed by anM. domesticus stDNA probe) shows different patterns in theM. domesticus andM. musculus karyotypes, with about 60% ofM. domesticus stDNA retained in theM. musculus genome. It is particularly noteworthy that the pericentromeric regions ofM. musculus chromosomes 1 and X are totally devoid ofM. domesticus stDNA sequences. In both groups, the differences in energy transfer between the stDNA-bound fluorochromes Hoechst 33258 and propidium iodide suggest that AT-rich repeated sequences have a much more clustered array in theM. domesticus stDNA, as if they are organized in tandem repeats longer than those ofM. musculus. Considering the data as a whole, it seems likely that the evolutionary paths of the two stDNAs diverged after the generation of the ancestral 230–240 bp stDNA repetitive unit through the amplification, in theM. domesticus genome, of a family repeat which included the EcoRI GAATTC restriction sequence.
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Redi, C.A., Garagna, S., Della Valle, G. et al. Differences in the organization and chromosomal allocation of satellite DNA between the European long tailed house miceMus domesticus andMus musculus . Chromosoma 99, 11–17 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01737284
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