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2. Observations on chromosome-specific sequencing for the construction of cross-species chromosome homology maps and its resolution of human:alpaca homology
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Jorge C. Pereira, Ana Borges, Fumio Kasai, Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, and Pereira, Jorge C [0000-0002-1472-1613]
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Chromosome mapping ,Alpaca homology ,Comparative genomics ,Biochemistry (medical) ,Genetics ,Molecular Medicine ,Review ,Molecular Biology ,Biochemistry ,Genetics (clinical) ,Chromosome-specific sequencing - Abstract
Background The history of comparative chromosome mapping is briefly reviewed, with discussion about the problem that occurs in chromosome painting when size heteromorphisms between homologues cause contamination in chromosomes sorted by flow cytometry that are used in the preparation of chromosome-specific DNA probes. Main body As an example, we show in the alpaca (Vicagna pacos) that sequencing of contaminated chromosome sorts can reveal chromosome homologies from alignment with human and mouse genome reference sequences. The procedure identifies syntenic blocks of DNA separated in the human karyotype that are associated in the closely related alpaca and dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) karyotypes. This example provides proof of principal for the validity of the method for comparative chromosome mapping. Conclusion It is suggested that the approach presented here may have application in the construction of comparative chromosome maps between distantly related taxa, such as monotremes and mammals.
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- 2022
3. The emergence of a new sex-system (XX/XY1Y2) suggests a species complex in the 'monotypic' rodent Oecomys auyantepui (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae)
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Willam Oliveira da Silva, Celina Coelho Rosa, Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, Patricia Caroline Mary O’Brien, Juliane Saldanha, Rogério Vieira Rossi, Julio Cesar Pieczarka, Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi, Oliveira da Silva, Willam [0000-0003-3125-1075], Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm Andrew [0000-0001-9372-1381], Saldanha, Juliane [0000-0003-3983-7169], Rossi, Rogério Vieira [0000-0003-2353-5000], Pieczarka, Julio Cesar [0000-0003-2951-8877], Nagamachi, Cleusa Yoshiko [0000-0003-1516-2734], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Multidisciplinary ,Sex Chromosomes ,Animals ,Rodentia ,Sigmodontinae ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,Phylogeny ,Chromosome Painting - Abstract
X-autosome translocation (XY1Y2) has been reported in distinct groups of vertebrates suggesting that the rise of a multiple sex system within a species may act as a reproductive barrier and lead to speciation. The viability of this system has been linked with repetitive sequences located between sex and autosomal portions of the translocation. Herein, we investigate Oecomys auyantepui, using chromosome banding and Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization with telomeric and Hylaeamys megacephalus whole-chromosome probes, and phylogenetic reconstruction using mtDNA and nuDNA sequences. We describe an amended karyotype for O. auyantepui (2n = 64♀65♂/FNa = 84) and report for the first time a multiple sex system (XX/XY1Y2) in Oryzomyini rodents. Molecular data recovered O. auyantepui as a monophyletic taxon with high support and cytogenetic data indicate that O. auyantepui may exist in two lineages recognized by distinct sex systems. The Neo-X exhibits repetitive sequences located between sex and autosomal portions, which would act as a boundary between these two segments. The G-banding comparisons of the Neo-X chromosomes of other Sigmodontinae taxa revealed a similar banding pattern, suggesting that the autosomal segment in the Neo-X can be shared among the Sigmodontinae lineages with a XY1Y2 sex system.
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- 2022
4. Chromosomal painting of the sandpiper (Actitis macularius) detects several fissions for the Scolopacidae family (Charadriiformes)
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Julio Cesar Pieczarka, Cristovam Guerreiro Diniz, Melquizedec Luiz Silva Pinheiro, Fengtang Yang, Patricia C. M. O´Brien, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi, Talita Fernanda Augusto Ribas, Pieczarka, Julio Cesar [0000-0003-2951-8877], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Charadriiformes ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Sandpiper ,Evolution ,Burhinus oedicnemus ,Chromosome Painting ,Birds ,Evolution, Molecular ,03 medical and health sciences ,medicine ,Actitis ,QH359-425 ,Animals ,QH540-549.5 ,Phylogeny ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,Ecology ,Chromosomal evolution ,030305 genetics & heredity ,Cytogenetics ,Karyotype ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,Evolutionary biology ,Microchromosome ,Ploidy ,Burhinus ,Classic and molecular cytogenetics ,Research Article - Abstract
Background The Scolopacidae family (Suborder Scolopaci, Charadriiformes) is composed of sandpipers and snipes; these birds are long-distance migrants that show great diversity in their behavior and habitat use. Cytogenetic studies in the Scolopacidae family show the highest diploid numbers for order Charadriiformes. This work analyzes for the first time the karyotype of Actitis macularius by classic cytogenetics and chromosome painting. Results The species has a diploid number of 92, composed mostly of telocentric pairs. This high 2n is greater than the proposed 80 for the avian ancestral putative karyotype (a common feature among Scolopaci), suggesting that fission rearrangements have formed smaller macrochromosomes and microchromosomes. Fluorescence in situ hybridization using Burhinus oedicnemus whole chromosome probes confirmed the fissions in pairs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 of macrochromosomes. Conclusion Comparative analysis with other species of Charadriiformes studied by chromosome painting together with the molecular phylogenies for the order allowed us to raise hypotheses about the chromosomal evolution in suborder Scolopaci. From this, we can establish a clear idea of how chromosomal evolution occurred in this suborder.
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- 2021
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5. First report on B chromosome content in a reptilian species: the case of Anolis carolinensis
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Alex I. Makunin, Marsel R. Kabilov, Artem P. Lisachov, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, I. G. Kichigin, Vladimir A. Trifonov, and Massimo Giovannotti
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Cell division ,Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone ,Biology ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Genome ,Chromosomes ,DNA sequencing ,Chromosome Painting ,Evolution, Molecular ,03 medical and health sciences ,Genetics ,Animals ,Supernumerary ,Molecular Biology ,Gene ,Phylogeny ,Whole genome sequencing ,B chromosome ,Microfilament Proteins ,Chromosome Mapping ,High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing ,Lizards ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,General Medicine ,Synaptonemal complex ,030104 developmental biology ,Evolutionary biology ,Cell Division - Abstract
Supernumerary elements of the genome are often called B chromosomes. They usually consist of various autosomal sequences and, because of low selective pressure, are mostly pseudogenized and contain many repeats. There are numerous reports on B chromosomes in mammals, fish, invertebrates, plants, and fungi, but only a few of them have been studied using sequencing techniques. However, reptilian supernumerary chromosomes have been detected only cytogenetically and never sequenced or analyzed at the molecular level. One model squamate species with available genome sequence is Anolis carolinensis. The scope of the present article is to describe the genetic content of A. carolinensis supernumerary chromosomes. In this article, we confirm the presence of B chromosomes in this species by reverse painting and synaptonemal complex analysis. We applied low-pass high-throughput sequencing to analyze flow-sorted B chromosomes. Anole B chromosomes exhibit similar traits to other supernumerary chromosomes from different taxons: they contain two genes related to cell division control (INCENP and SPIRE2), are enriched in specific repeats, and show a high degree of pseudogenization. Therefore, the present study confirms that reptilian B chromosomes resemble supernumerary chromosomes of other taxons.
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- 2018
6. Comparative chromosome painting in Columbidae (Columbiformes) reinforces divergence in Passerea and Columbea
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Ivanete de Oliveira Furo, Edivaldo Herculano Corrêa de Oliveira, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Analía Del Valle Garnero, Rafael Kretschmer, Jorge C. Pereira, Ricardo José Gunski, and Thales Renato Ochotorena de Freitas
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Columbiformes ,Karyotype ,Synteny ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Chromosomes ,Chromosome Painting ,Evolution, Molecular ,03 medical and health sciences ,Genetics ,Animals ,Humans ,Columbidae ,Gene Rearrangement ,Columbea ,biology ,Chromosome ,biology.organism_classification ,Leucopternis albicollis ,Leptotila verreauxi ,030104 developmental biology ,Evolutionary biology ,Chromosome Inversion ,Neoaves ,Chickens ,Sparrows - Abstract
Pigeons and doves (Columbiformes) are one of the oldest and most diverse extant lineages of birds. However, the karyotype evolution within Columbiformes remains unclear. To delineate the synteny-conserved segments and karyotypic differences among four Columbidae species, we used chromosome painting from Gallus gallus (GGA, 2n = 78) and Leucopternis albicollis (LAL, 2n = 68). Besides that, a set of painting probes for the eared dove, Zenaida auriculata (ZAU, 2n = 76), was generated from flow-sorted chromosomes. Chromosome painting with GGA and ZAU probes showed conservation of the first ten ancestral pairs in Z. auriculata, Columba livia, and Columbina picui, while in Leptotila verreauxi, fusion of the ancestral chromosomes 6 and 7 was observed. However, LAL probes revealed a complex reorganization of ancestral chromosome 1, involving paracentric and pericentric inversions. Because of the presence of similar intrachromosomal rearrangements in the chromosomes corresponding to GGA1q in the Columbidae and Passeriformes species but without a common origin, these results are consistent with the recent proposal of divergence within Neoaves (Passerea and Columbea). In addition, inversions in chromosome 2 were identified in C. picui and L. verreauxi. Thus, in four species of distinct genera of the Columbidae family, unique chromosomal rearrangements have occurred during karyotype evolution, confirming that despite conservation of the ancestral syntenic groups, these chromosomes have been modified by the occurrence of intrachromosomal rearrangements.
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- 2018
7. Chromosomal phylogeny and comparative chromosome painting among Neacomys species (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) from eastern Amazonia
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Julio Cesar Pieczarka, Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi, Marlyson Jeremias Rodrigues da Costa, Willam Oliveira da Silva, Rogério Vieira Rossi, Ana Cristina Mendes-Oliveira, Patricia Caroline Mary O’Brien, Nagamachi, Cleusa Yoshiko [0000-0003-1516-2734], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Systematics ,Evolution ,ZOO-FISH ,Karyotype ,Amazon biodiversity ,Akodontini ,Synteny ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Chromosome Painting ,03 medical and health sciences ,Monophyly ,QH359-425 ,Animals ,Sigmodontinae ,Oryzomyini ,Phylogeny ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Geography ,biology ,Phylogenetic tree ,biology.organism_classification ,Neacomys ,Chromosomes, Mammalian ,Maximum parsimony ,Hylaeamys megacephalus ,030104 developmental biology ,Evolutionary biology ,Karyotypic diversity ,DNA Probes ,Speciation and evolutionary genetics ,Brazil ,Research Article - Abstract
Background The Neacomys genus is predominantly found in the Amazon region, and belongs to the most diverse tribe of the Sigmodontinae subfamily (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Oryzomyini). The systematics of this genus and questions about its diversity and range have been investigated by morphological, molecular (Cytb and COI sequences) and karyotype analysis (classic cytogenetics and chromosome painting), which have revealed candidate species and new distribution areas. Here we analyzed four species of Neacomys by chromosome painting with Hylaeamys megacephalus (HME) whole-chromosome probes, and compared the results with two previously studied Neacomys species and with other taxa from Oryzomyini and Akodontini tribes that have been hybridized with HME probes. Maximum Parsimony (MP) analyses were performed with the PAUP and T.N.T. software packages, using a non-additive (unordered) multi-state character matrix, based on chromosomal morphology, number and syntenic blocks. We also compared the chromosomal phylogeny obtained in this study with molecular topologies (Cytb and COI) that included eastern Amazonian species of Neacomys, to define the phylogenetic relationships of these taxa. Results The comparative chromosome painting analysis of the seven karyotypes of the six species of Neacomys shows that their diversity is due to 17 fusion/fission events and one translocation, pericentric inversions in four syntenic blocks, and constitutive heterochromatin (CH) amplification/deletion of six syntenic autosomal blocks plus the X chromosome. The chromosomal phylogeny is consistent with the molecular relationships of species of Neacomys. We describe new karyotypes and expand the distribution area for species from eastern Amazonia and detect complex rearrangements by chromosome painting among the karyotypes. Conclusions Our phylogeny reflects the molecular relationships of the Akodontini and Oryzomyini taxa and supports the monophyly of Neacomys. This work presents new insights about the chromosomal evolution of this group, and we conclude that the karyotypic divergence is in accord with phylogenetic relationships.
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- 2019
8. Identification of two independent X-autosome translocations in closely related mammalian (Proechimys) species
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Marlyson Jeremias Rodrigues da Costa, Jorge C. Pereira, Willam Oliveira da Silva, J. D. Rissino, Julio Cesar Pieczarka, and Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,X Chromosome ,Karyotype ,lcsh:Medicine ,Rodentia ,Chromosomal translocation ,Proechimys goeldii ,Biology ,Translocation, Genetic ,Article ,Evolution, Molecular ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Genus ,Animals ,lcsh:Science ,Sex Chromosomes ,Multidisciplinary ,Autosome ,lcsh:R ,Chromosome ,biology.organism_classification ,Chromosomes, Mammalian ,Fixation (population genetics) ,030104 developmental biology ,Evolutionary biology ,Karyotyping ,Chromosome Inversion ,Female ,lcsh:Q ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Proechimys - Abstract
Multiple sex chromosome systems have been described for several mammalian orders, with different species from the same genus sharing the same system (e.g., X1X2Y or XY1Y2). This is important because the translocated autosome may be influenced by the evolution of the recipient sex chromosome, and this may be related to speciation. It is often thought that the translocation of an autosome to a sex chromosome may share a common origin among phylogenetically related species. However, the neo-X chromosomes of Proechimys goeldii (2n = 24♀, 25♂/NFa = 42) and Proechimys gr. goeldii (2n = 16♀, 17♂/NFa = 14) have distinct sizes and morphologies that have made it difficult to determine whether they have the same or different origins. This study investigates the origins of the XY1Y2 sex chromosome determination system in P. goeldii (PGO) and P. gr. goeldii (PGG) and elucidates the chromosomal rearrangements in this low-diploid-number group of Proechimys species. Toward this end, we produced whole-chromosome probes for P. roberti (PRO; 2n = 30♂/NFa = 54) and P. goeldii (2n = 25♂/NFa = 42) and used them in comparative chromosomal mapping. Our analysis reveals that multiple translocations and inversions are responsible for the karyotype diversity of these species, with only three whole-chromosomes conserved between PRO and PGO and eight between PGO and PGG. Our data indicate that multiple sex chromosome systems have originated twice in Proechimys. As small populations are prone to the fixation of chromosomal rearrangements, we speculate that biological features of Rodentia contribute to this fixation. We also highlight the potential of these rodents as a model for studying sex chromosome evolution.
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- 2019
9. LINE-related component of mouse heterochromatin and complex chromocenters’ composition
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A. N. Prusov, Alexei S. Komissarov, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Olga I. Podgornaya, Vladimir A. Trifonov, Irina S. Waisertreiger, D.I. Ostromyshenskii, Anna Gorbunova, and Inna S. Kuznetsova
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0301 basic medicine ,Heterochromatin ,Satellite DNA ,DNA, Satellite ,Biology ,Genome ,DNA sequencing ,Cell Line ,Mice ,Open Reading Frames ,03 medical and health sciences ,Tandem repeat ,Databases, Genetic ,Genetics ,Animals ,Humans ,Constitutive heterochromatin ,Cloning, Molecular ,3' Untranslated Regions ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,Mice, Inbred C3H ,030102 biochemistry & molecular biology ,Hybridization probe ,Chromosome ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,Fibroblasts ,Long Interspersed Nucleotide Elements ,030104 developmental biology ,Tandem Repeat Sequences ,DNA Probes - Abstract
Chromocenters are interphase nuclear landmark structures of constitutive heterochromatin. The tandem repeat (TR)-enriched parts of different chromosomes cluster together in chromocenters. There has been progress in recent years in determining the protein content of chromocenters, although it is not clear which DNA sequences underly constitutive heterochromatin apart from the TRs. The aim of the current work was to find out which DNA sequences besides TRs are involved in chromocenters' formation. Biochemically isolated chromocenters and microdissected centromeric regions were amplified by DOP-PCR, then cloned and sequenced. Alignment to Repbase, the mouse reference genome and WGS databases separated the sequences from both libraries into three groups: (1) sequences with similarity to pericentromere mouse major satellite; (2) sequences without similarity to any repetitive sequences; (3) sequences with similarity to long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs). LINE-related sequences have a disperse pattern distribution on chromosomes predicted in silico. Selected clones were used for fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). The 10 clones tested hybridized to chromocenters and centromeric regions of metaphase chromosomes. These clones were used for double FISH with four known cloned TRs (satDNA, satellite DNA) and a probe specific for the sex chromosomes. The probes bind various chromocenters' regions without overlapping; so, FISH results reveal a complex chromocenter composition. We mapped 18 LINE-derived clones to the RepBase L1 records. Most of them grouped in a ∼2-kb region at the end of the second ORF and 3' untranslated region (UTR). So, even the limited number of the clones allows us to determine the region of the L1 element that is specific for heterochromatic regions. Although the L1 full-length probe did not hybridize at detectable levels to the heterochromatic region on any chromosome, the 2-kb fragment found is definitely a part of these regions. The precise LINE ∼2-kb fragment is the component of mouse and human constitutive heterochromatin enriched with TRs. The method used for amplification of the probes from two sources of the heterochromatic material uncovered the enrichment of a precise fragment of LINE within chromocenters.
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- 2016
10. New insights into sex chromosome evolution in anole lizards (Reptilia, Dactyloidae)
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Andrea Splendiani, P. Nisi Cerioni, I. G. Kichigin, Bee Ling Ng, Willem Rens, Paolo Ruggeri, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, G. Giovagnoli, Jorge C. Pereira, Vladimir A. Trifonov, Patricia Caroline Mary O’Brien, V. Caputo Barucchi, Ettore Olmo, M. Giovannotti, Fumio Kasai, and Alessio Paoletti
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Male ,0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Ctenonotus ,Karyotype ,Comparative mapping ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Anolis ,Chromosome Painting ,Evolution, Molecular ,Chromosome rearrangements ,03 medical and health sciences ,Norops ,Genetics ,Animals ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,Genetics (clinical) ,Recombination, Genetic ,Sex Chromosomes ,Autosome ,biology ,Dactyloidae ,Chromosome Mapping ,Chromosome ,Lizards ,biology.organism_classification ,Chromosome Banding ,Genes, Mitochondrial ,030104 developmental biology ,Evolutionary biology ,Karyotyping ,Sex chromosome homology ,Microchromosome ,Female ,Ploidy - Abstract
Anoles are a clade of iguanian lizards that underwent an extensive radiation between 125 and 65 million years ago. Their karyotypes show wide variation in diploid number spanning from 26 (Anolis evermanni) to 44 (A. insolitus). This chromosomal variation involves their sex chromosomes, ranging from simple systems (XX/XY), with heterochromosomes represented by either micro- or macrochromosomes, to multiple systems (X1X1X2X2/X1X2Y). Here, for the first time, the homology relationships of sex chromosomes have been investigated in nine anole lizards at the whole chromosome level. Cross-species chromosome painting using sex chromosome paints from A. carolinensis, Ctenonotus pogus and Norops sagrei and gene mapping of X-linked genes demonstrated that the anole ancestral sex chromosome system constituted by microchromosomes is retained in all the species with the ancestral karyotype (2n = 36, 12 macro- and 24 microchromosomes). On the contrary, species with a derived karyotype, namely those belonging to genera Ctenonotus and Norops, show a series of rearrangements (fusions/fissions) involving autosomes/microchromosomes that led to the formation of their current sex chromosome systems. These results demonstrate that different autosomes were involved in translocations with sex chromosomes in closely related lineages of anole lizards and that several sequential microautosome/sex chromosome fusions lead to a remarkable increase in size of Norops sagrei sex chromosomes.
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- 2016
11. Genome-wide comparative chromosome maps of Arvicola amphibius, Dicrostonyx torquatus, and Myodes rutilus
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Natalya A. Lemskaya, Svetlana A. Romanenko, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, Nina Bulatova, F. N. Golenishchev, Vladimir A. Trifonov, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Fengtang Yang, and Natalya A. Serdyukova
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Genetic Markers ,0301 basic medicine ,Field vole ,Karyotype ,Zoology ,Synteny ,Cell Line ,Chromosome Painting ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cricetinae ,Genetics ,Animals ,Dicrostonyx torquatus ,Water vole ,Phylogeny ,Chromosome Aberrations ,Sex Chromosomes ,Mesocricetus ,biology ,Arvicolinae ,Collared lemming ,Chromosome Mapping ,biology.organism_classification ,Biological Evolution ,Chromosome Banding ,030104 developmental biology ,Arvicola ,Vole - Abstract
The subfamily Arvicolinae consists of a great number of species with highly diversified karyotypes. In spite of the wide use of arvicolines in biological and medicine studies, the data on their karyotype structures are limited. Here, we made a set of painting probes from flow-sorted chromosomes of a male Palearctic collared lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus, DTO). Together with the sets of painting probes made previously from the field vole (Microtus agrestis, MAG) and golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus, MAU), we carried out a reciprocal chromosome painting between these three species. The three sets of probes were further hybridized onto the chromosomes of the Eurasian water vole (Arvicola amphibius) and northern red-backed vole (Myodes rutilus). We defined the diploid chromosome number in D. torquatus karyotype as 2n = 45 + Bs and showed that the system of sex chromosomes is X1X2Y1. The probes developed here provide a genomic tool-kit, which will help to investigate the evolutionary biology of the Arvicolinae rodents. Our results show that the syntenic association MAG1/17 is present not only in Arvicolinae but also in some species of Cricetinae; and thus, should not be considered as a cytogenetic signature for Arvicolinae. Although cytogenetic signature markers for the genera have not yet been found, our data provides insight into the likely ancestral karyotype of Arvicolinae. We conclude that the karyotypes of modern voles could have evolved from a common ancestral arvicoline karyotype (AAK) with 2n = 56 mainly by centric fusions and fissions.
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- 2015
12. Chromosomal evolution and phylogeny in the Nullicauda group (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae): evidence from multidirectional chromosome painting
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Anderson José Baía Gomes, Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Julio Cesar Pieczarka, Patricia Caroline Mary O’Brien, Fengtang Yang, Luís Reginaldo Ribeiro Rodrigues, Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm [0000-0001-9372-1381], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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0301 basic medicine ,Subfamily ,Evolution ,Phyllostomus hastatus ,Karyotype ,Biology ,Stenodermatinae ,Rhinophylla ,Chromosome Painting ,Evolution, Molecular ,03 medical and health sciences ,Bat evolution ,Phylogenetics ,Chiroptera ,Genome mapping ,QH359-425 ,Animals ,Humans ,Phylogeny ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Synteny ,Molecular cytogenetics ,Carollia ,biology.organism_classification ,Chromosomes, Mammalian ,Chromosome Banding ,030104 developmental biology ,Carollia brevicauda ,Chromosome phylogeny ,Evolutionary biology ,Karyotyping ,Software ,Research Article - Abstract
Background The family Phyllostomidae (Chiroptera) shows wide morphological, molecular and cytogenetic variation; many disagreements regarding its phylogeny and taxonomy remains to be resolved. In this study, we use chromosome painting with whole chromosome probes from the Phyllostomidae Phyllostomus hastatus and Carollia brevicauda to determine the rearrangements among several genera of the Nullicauda group (subfamilies Gliphonycterinae, Carolliinae, Rhinophyllinae and Stenodermatinae). Results These data, when compared with previously published chromosome homology maps, allow the construction of a phylogeny comparable to those previously obtained by morphological and molecular analysis. Our phylogeny is largely in agreement with that proposed with molecular data, both on relationships between the subfamilies and among genera; it confirms, for instance, that Carollia and Rhinophylla, previously considered as part of the same subfamily are, in fact, distant genera. Conclusions The occurrence of the karyotype considered ancestral for this family in several different branches suggests that the diversification of Phyllostomidae into many subfamilies has occurred in a short period of time. Finally, the comparison with published maps using human whole chromosome probes allows us to track some syntenic associations prior to the emergence of this family. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12862-018-1176-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- 2018
13. Contrasting origin of B chromosomes in two cervids (Siberian roe deer and grey brocket deer) unravelled by chromosome-specific DNA sequencing
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Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Denis M. Larkin, Stephen J. O'Brien, Anastasiya A. Proskuryakova, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Alexey I. Makunin, Vladimir A. Trifonov, N.V. Vorobieva, Ekaterina Chernyaeva, I. G. Kichigin, Fengtang Yang, Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm [0000-0001-9372-1381], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Siberian Roe Deer ,0301 basic medicine ,Heterozygote ,B chromosome Evolution ,Gene Expression ,Biology ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Capreolus pygargus ,DNA sequencing ,03 medical and health sciences ,Mutation Rate ,Species Specificity ,Gene Duplication ,biology.animal ,Genetics ,Animals ,Humans ,Chromosomes, Human, 4-5 ,Brocket deer ,DNA Primers ,Protooncogenes ,B chromosome ,Autosome ,Deer ,Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret ,Chromosome Mapping ,High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,DOP-PCR ,biology.organism_classification ,Biological Evolution ,Chromosomes, Mammalian ,High-throughput Sequencing ,Roe deer ,Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit ,Grey Brocket Deer ,030104 developmental biology ,Karyotyping ,Research Article ,Biotechnology - Abstract
Background B chromosomes are dispensable and variable karyotypic elements found in some species of animals, plants and fungi. They often originate from duplications and translocations of host genomic regions or result from hybridization. In most species, little is known about their DNA content. Here we perform high-throughput sequencing and analysis of B chromosomes of roe deer and brocket deer, the only representatives of Cetartiodactyla known to have B chromosomes. Results In this study we developed an approach to identify genomic regions present on chromosomes by high-throughput sequencing of DNA generated from flow-sorted chromosomes using degenerate-oligonucleotide-primed PCR. Application of this method on small cattle autosomes revealed a previously described KIT gene region translocation associated with colour sidedness. Implementing this approach to B chromosomes from two cervid species, Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus) and grey brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira), revealed dramatically different genetic content: roe deer B chromosomes consisted of two duplicated genomic regions (a total of 1.42-1.98 Mbp) involving three genes, while grey brocket deer B chromosomes contained 26 duplicated regions (a total of 8.28-9.31 Mbp) with 34 complete and 21 partial genes, including KIT and RET protooncogenes, previously found on supernumerary chromosomes in canids. Sequence variation analysis of roe deer B chromosomes revealed a high frequency of mutations and increased heterozygosity due to either amplification within B chromosomes or divergence between different Bs. In contrast, grey brocket deer B chromosomes were found to be more homogeneous and resembled autosomes in patterns of sequence variation. Similar tendencies were observed in repetitive DNA composition. Conclusions Our data demonstrate independent origins of B chromosomes in the grey brocket and roe deer. We hypothesize that the B chromosomes of these two cervid species represent different stages of B chromosome sequences evolution: probably nascent and similar to autosomal copies in brocket deer, highly derived in roe deer. Based on the presence of the same orthologous protooncogenes in canids and brocket deer Bs we argue that genomic regions involved in B chromosome formation are not random. In addition, our approach is also applicable to the characterization of other evolutionary and clinical rearrangements. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-016-2933-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- 2016
14. Strong conservation of the bird Z chromosome in reptilian genomes is revealed by comparative painting despite 275 million years divergence
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Lukáš Kratochvíl, Vladimir A. Trifonov, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, M. Giovannotti, Fumio Kasai, Willem Rens, Ettore Olmo, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Martina Johnson Pokorná, and Vincenzo Caputo
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Male ,Genetics ,Z chromosome ,Genome ,Sex Chromosomes ,Squamata ,biology ,Karyotype ,Reptiles ,Chromosome ,biology.organism_classification ,Chromosome Painting ,Birds ,Evolution, Molecular ,Evolutionary biology ,Phylogenetics ,Animals ,Female ,Metaphase ,Phylogeny ,Genetics (clinical) ,Synteny - Abstract
The divergence of lineages leading to extant squamate reptiles (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) and birds occurred about 275 million years ago. Birds, unlike squamates, have karyotypes that are typified by the presence of a number of very small chromosomes. Hence, a number of chromosome rearrangements might be expected between bird and squamate genomes. We used chromosome-specific DNA from flow-sorted chicken (Gallus gallus) Z sex chromosomes as a probe in cross-species hybridization to metaphase spreads of 28 species from 17 families representing most main squamate lineages and single species of crocodiles and turtles. In all but one case, the Z chromosome was conserved intact despite very ancient divergence of sauropsid lineages. Furthermore, the probe painted an autosomal region in seven species from our sample with characterized sex chromosomes, and this provides evidence against an ancestral avian-like system of sex determination in Squamata. The avian Z chromosome synteny is, therefore, conserved albeit it is not a sex chromosome in these squamate species.
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- 2011
15. Molecular and cytological characterization of repetitive DNA sequences from the centromeric heterochromatin of Sciara coprophila
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Patricia G. Greciano, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Alfredo Villasante, Clara Goday, M. Carmen Escribá, Maria Mendez-Lago, Vladimir A. Trifonov, and Beatriz de Pablos
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Male ,Tissue Fixation ,X Chromosome ,Heterochromatin ,Centromere ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Biology ,Salivary Glands ,X-inactivation ,Chromosome 16 ,Chromosome 19 ,Genetics ,Animals ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,Phylogeny ,Genetics (clinical) ,X chromosome ,Polytene Chromosomes ,Polytene chromosome ,Diptera ,Chromosome Mapping ,DNA ,Meiosis ,Tandem Repeat Sequences ,Larva ,Chromosome 21 ,Chromosome 22 - Abstract
11 páginas, 8 figuras -- PAGS nros. 387-397, Sciara coprophila (Diptera, Nematocera) constitutes a classic model to analyze unusual chromosome behavior such as the somatic elimination of paternal X chromosomes, the elimination of the whole paternal, plus non-disjunction of the maternal X chromosome at male meiosis. The molecular organization of the heterochromatin in S. coprophila is mostly unknown except for the ribosomal DNA located in the X chromosome pericentromeric heterochromatin. The characterization of the centromeric regions, thus, is an essential and required step for the establishment of S. coprophila as a model system to study fundamental mechanisms of chromosome segregation. To accomplish such a study, heterochromatic sections of the X chromosome centromeric region from salivary glands polytene chromosomes were microdissected and microcloned. Here, we report the identification and characterization of two tandem repeated DNA sequences from the pericentromeric region of the X chromosome, a pericentromeric RTE element and an AT-rich centromeric satellite. These sequences will be important tools for the cloning of S. coprophila centromeric heterochromatin using libraries of large genomic clones, This work was supported by grants BFU2008-02947-C02-02/BMC to C.G. and BFU2008-02947-C02-01/BMC to A.V. from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, an institutional grant from the Fundación Ramón Areces to the Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa” and a grant supporting the Cambridge Resource Centre from the Wellcome Trust to M.A.FS; M.C.Escribá was supported by the FPI fellowship BES-2006-12492 from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
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- 2011
16. Chromosome painting in Tragulidae facilitates the reconstruction of Ruminantia ancestral karyotype
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Vladimir A. Trifonov, Anastasia I. Kulemzina, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Oliver A. Ryder, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, and Fengtang Yang
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Male ,Sequence Homology ,Zoology ,Cell Line ,Chromosome Painting ,Ruminantia ,Evolution, Molecular ,Genetics ,medicine ,Tragulus ,Animals ,Humans ,Deer mouse ,medicine.vector_of_disease ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,biology ,Java mouse-deer ,Phylogenetic tree ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,Ruminants ,biology.organism_classification ,Chromosomes, Mammalian ,Chromosome Banding ,Karyotyping ,Pecora - Abstract
Although Tragulidae, as the basal family in Ruminantia phylogenetic tree, is the key taxon for understanding the early chromosome evolution of extant ruminants, comparative molecular cytogenetic data on the tragulids are scarce. Here, we present the first genome-wide comparative map of the Java mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus, Tragulidae) revealed by chromosome painting with human and dromedary probes. Together with the published comparative maps of major representative cetartiodactyl species established with the same set of probes, our results allowed us to reconstruct a 2n = 48 Ruminantia ancestral karyotype, which is similar to the cetartiodactyl ancestral karyotype. The karyotype evolution of T. javanicus has involved multiple rearrangements, most of which appear to be apomorphic and have not found in karyotype evolution of pecoran species (i.e., Ruminantia excluding Tragulidae). The rate of chromosome evolution of the mouse deer was rather low-0.4 R/Ma, while the estimated tempo of chromosome changes on the lineages leading from Cetartiodactyla ancestor to Ruminantia and from Ruminantia to Pecora were roughly the same (about 1.2 R/Ma).
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- 2011
17. Multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma is caused by a disease-specific spectrum of mutations in TGFBR1
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Hane Lee, Declan P. Lunny, Ildikó Szeverényi, Sigurd Broesby-Olsen, Mariella D'Alessandro, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Gabriella Pichert, Barry Merriman, Brian O'Connor, Jean Friedel, Stephanie E. Coats, Lesley Christie, Bruno Reversade, Sean Whittaker, David Goudie, E. Birgitte Lane, Chandra S. Verma, Nigel Burrows, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Ian Hayes, Stuart Avery, Arlene Stewart, Stanley F. Nelson, and Other departments
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Male ,Models, Molecular ,Marfan syndrome ,Keratoacanthoma ,Skin Neoplasms ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Receptor, Transforming Growth Factor-beta Type I ,Mutation, Missense ,Disease ,Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases ,Biology ,Bioinformatics ,medicine.disease_cause ,Marfan Syndrome ,Frameshift mutation ,Genetics ,medicine ,Carcinoma ,Humans ,Amino Acid Sequence ,Frameshift Mutation ,Conserved Sequence ,Genetic Association Studies ,DNA Primers ,Mutation ,Base Sequence ,Sequence Homology, Amino Acid ,Haplotype ,Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases ,medicine.disease ,Protein Structure, Tertiary ,Haplotypes ,Codon, Nonsense ,Cancer research ,Female ,Mutant Proteins ,Skin cancer ,Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta - Abstract
Multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma (MSSE), also known as Ferguson-Smith disease (FSD), is an autosomal-dominant skin cancer condition characterized by multiple squamous-carcinoma-like locally invasive skin tumors that grow rapidly for a few weeks before spontaneously regressing, leaving scars(1,2). High-throughput genomic sequencing of a conservative estimate (24.2 Mb) of the disease locus on chromosome 9 using exon array capture identified independent mutations in TGFBR1 in three unrelated families. Subsequent dideoxy sequencing of TGFBR1 identified 11 distinct monoallelic mutations in 18 affected families, firmly establishing TGFBR1 as the causative gene. The nature of the sequence variants, which include mutations in the extracellular ligand-binding domain and a series of truncating mutations in the kinase domain, indicates a clear genotype-phenotype correlation between loss-of-function TGFBR1 mutations and MSSE. This distinguishes MSSE from the Marfan syndrome-related disorders in which missense mutations in TGFBR1 lead to developmental defects with vascular involvement but no reported predisposition to cancer
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- 2011
18. Differentiation of sex chromosomes and karyotypic evolution in the eye-lid geckos (Squamata: Gekkota: Eublepharidae), a group with different modes of sex determination
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Lukáš Kratochvíl, Petr Ráb, Willem Rens, Martina Johnson Pokorná, and Marie Rábová
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Male ,Goniurosaurus ,Sex Characteristics ,Sex Chromosomes ,biology ,Zoology ,Lizards ,Karyotype ,Sex Determination Processes ,Eublepharidae ,Eublepharis ,biology.organism_classification ,Y chromosome ,Evolution, Molecular ,Species Specificity ,Karyotyping ,Coleonyx variegatus ,Genetics ,Animals ,Female ,Goniurosaurus araneus ,Phylogeny ,Goniurosaurus lichtenfelderi - Abstract
The eyelid geckos (family Eublepharidae) include both species with temperature-dependent sex determination and species where genotypic sex determination (GSD) was suggested based on the observation of equal sex ratios at several incubation temperatures. In this study, we present data on karyotypes and chromosomal characteristics in 12 species (Aeluroscalabotes felinus, Coleonyx brevis, Coleonyx elegans, Coleonyx variegatus, Eublepharis angramainyu, Eublepharis macularius, Goniurosaurus araneus, Goniurosaurus lichtenfelderi, Goniurosaurus luii, Goniurosaurus splendens, Hemitheconyx caudicinctus, and Holodactylus africanus) covering all genera of the family, and search for the presence of heteromorphic sex chromosomes. Phylogenetic mapping of chromosomal changes showed a long evolutionary stasis of karyotypes with all acrocentric chromosomes followed by numerous chromosomal rearrangements in the ancestors of two lineages. We have found heteromorphic sex chromosomes in only one species, which suggests that sex chromosomes in most GSD species of the eyelid geckos are not morphologically differentiated. The sexual difference in karyotype was detected only in C. elegans which has a multiple sex chromosome system (X(1)X(2)Y). The metacentric Y chromosome evolved most likely via centric fusion of two acrocentric chromosomes involving loss of interstitial telomeric sequences. We conclude that the eyelid geckos exhibit diversity in sex determination ranging from the absence of any sexual differences to heteromorphic sex chromosomes, which makes them an interesting system for exploring the evolutionary origin of sexually dimorphic genomes.
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- 2010
19. Meiotic analysis of XX/XY and neo-XX/XY sex chromosomes in Phyllostomidae by cross-species chromosome painting revealing a common chromosome 15-XY rearrangement in Stenodermatinae
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Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Julio Cesar Pieczarka, Renata Coelho Rodrigues Noronha, and Patricia C. M. O’Brien
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Genetics ,X Chromosome ,Autosome ,Phyllostomus hastatus ,Karyotype ,Biology ,Y chromosome ,biology.organism_classification ,Translocation, Genetic ,Bivalent (genetics) ,Chromosome Painting ,Meiosis ,Species Specificity ,Chiroptera ,Karyotyping ,Y Chromosome ,Animals ,Small supernumerary marker chromosome ,X chromosome - Abstract
We analyzed the meiotic behavior of the sex chromosomes of the bats Glossophaga soricina (XX/XY), Artibeus cinereus and Uroderma magnirostrum (neo-XX/XY) using multicolor FISH. The X chromosome and pair 15 autosome probes are from Phyllostomus hastatus and the Y from Carollia brevicauda. On both species with the neo-XX/XY system, the autosome translocated to the sex chromosomes is the pair 15 in P. hastatus, a synapomorphy. The analysis of meiosis confirms that the X and Y have a pseudo-autosomal region, with a typical end-to-end pairing. The autosomal regions of the neo-XX/XY shows different levels of condensation when compared to the original XX/XY. The compound system presented a characteristic shape, as if it was a closed ring with a tail. The ring represents the non-paired segments of the X and Y and the small pairing region of the original sex chromosomes. The tail corresponds to the pairing of the 15 P. hastatus autosomal bivalent, which are translocated to the sex chromosomes. Probably the non-pairing is responsible for the meiotic silencing of these segments.
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- 2010
20. Reciprocal chromosome painting between white hawk (Leucopternis albicollis) and chicken reveals extensive fusions and fissions during karyotype evolution of accipitridae (Aves, Falconiformes)
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Edivaldo Herculano Corrêa de Oliveira, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Marcella Mergulhão Tagliarini, J. D. Rissino, and Julio Cesar Pieczarka
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biology ,Phylogenetic tree ,Chromosome Mapping ,Zoology ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,biology.organism_classification ,Leucopternis albicollis ,Cell Line ,Chromosome Banding ,Chromosome Painting ,Hawks ,Evolution, Molecular ,White (mutation) ,Phylogenetics ,Karyotyping ,Genetics ,Microchromosome ,Accipitridae ,Animals ,Chickens ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,Metaphase - Abstract
Evolutionary cytogenetics can take confidence from methodological and analytical advances that promise to speed up data acquisition and analysis. Drastic chromosomal reshuffling has been documented in birds of prey by FISH. However, the available probes, derived from chicken, have the limitation of not being capable of determining if breakpoints are similar in different species: possible synapomorphies are based on the number of segments hybridized by each of chicken chromosome probes. Hence, we employed FACS to construct chromosome paint sets of the white hawk (Leucopternis albicollis), a Neotropical species of Accipitridae with 2n = 66. FISH experiments enabled us to assign subchromosomal homologies between chicken and white hawk. In agreement with previous reports, we found the occurrence of fusions involving segments homologous to chicken microchromosomes and macrochromosomes. The use of these probes in other birds of prey can identify important chromosomal synapomorphies and clarify the phylogenetic position of different groups of Accipitridae.
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- 2010
21. Chromosome homologies of the highly rearranged karyotypes of four Akodon species (Rodentia, Cricetidae) resolved by reciprocal chromosome painting: the evolution of the lowest diploid number in rodents
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Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Yatiyo Yonenaga-Yassuda, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, and Karen Ventura
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Chromosome Aberrations ,Male ,Genetics ,Sex Chromosomes ,Autosome ,biology ,Arvicolinae ,Akodon cursor ,Rodentia ,biology.organism_classification ,Biological Evolution ,Diploidy ,Chromosomes ,Akodon ,Chromosome Painting ,Karyotyping ,Chromosome 19 ,Chromosome regions ,Animals ,Female ,Chromosome 21 ,Chromosome 22 ,Chromosomal inversion - Abstract
Traditionally comparative cytogenetic studies are based mainly on banding patterns. Nevertheless, when dealing with species with highly rearranged genomes, as in Akodon species, or with other highly divergent species, cytogenetic comparisons of banding patterns prove inadequate. Hence, comparative chromosome painting has become the method of choice for genome comparisons at the cytogenetic level since it allows complete chromosome probes of a species to be hybridized in situ onto chromosomes of other species, detecting homologous genomic regions between them. In the present study, we have explored the highly rearranged complements of the Akodon species using reciprocal chromosome painting through species-specific chromosome probes obtained by chromosome sorting. The results revealed complete homology among the complements of Akodon sp. n. (ASP), 2n = 10; Akodon cursor (ACU), 2n = 15; Akodon montensis (AMO), 2n = 24; and Akodon paranaensis (APA), 2n = 44, and extensive chromosome rearrangements have been detected within the species with high precision. Robertsonian and tandem rearrangements, pericentric inversions and/or centromere repositioning, paracentric inversion, translocations, insertions, and breakpoints, where chromosomal rearrangements, seen to be favorable, were observed. Chromosome painting using the APA set of 21 autosomes plus X and Y revealed eight syntenic segments that are shared with A. montensis, A. cursor, and ASP, and one syntenic segment shared by A. montensis and A. cursor plus five exclusive chromosome associations for A. cursor and six for ASP chromosome X, except for the heterochromatin region of ASP X, and even chromosome Y shared complete homology among the species. These data indicate that all those closely related species have experienced a recent extensive process of autosomal rearrangement in which, except for ASP, there is still complete conservation of sex chromosomes homologies.
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- 2009
22. Cross-species chromosome painting in Cetartiodactyla: Reconstructing the karyotype evolution in key phylogenetic lineages
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Anastasia I. Kulemzina, Roscoe Stanyon, Polina L. Perelman, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, Vladimir A. Trifonov, Nadezhda V. Rubtsova, Fengtang Yang, and Vitaly Volobuev
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Gene Rearrangement ,Mammals ,Genetics ,Autosome ,biology ,Phylogenetic tree ,Giraffidae ,Lineage (evolution) ,Suina ,Karyotype ,biology.organism_classification ,Chromosomes, Mammalian ,Chromosome Painting ,Evolution, Molecular ,Species Specificity ,Phylogenetics ,Karyotyping ,Animals ,Phylogeny ,Pecora - Abstract
Recent molecular and morphological studies place Artiodactyla and Cetacea into the order Cetartiodactyla. Within the Cetartiodactyla such families as Bovidae, Cervidae, and Suidae are well studied by comparative chromosome painting, but many taxa that are crucial for understanding cetartiodactyl phylogeny remain poorly studied. Here we present the genome-wide comparative maps of five cetartiodactyl species obtained by chromosome painting with human and dromedary paint probes from four taxa: Cetacea, Hippopotamidae, Giraffidae, and Moschidae. This is the first molecular cytogenetic report on pilot whale, hippopotamus, okapi, and Siberian musk deer. Our results, when integrated with previously published comparative chromosome maps allow us to reconstruct the evolutionary pathway and rates of chromosomal rearrangements in Cetartiodactyla. We hypothesize that the putative cetartiodactyl ancestral karyotype (CAK) contained 25-26 pairs of autosomes, 2n = 52-54, and that the association of human chromosomes 8/9 could be a cytogenetic signature that unites non-camelid cetartiodactyls. There are no unambiguous cytogenetic landmarks that unite Hippopotamidae and Cetacea. If we superimpose chromosome rearrangements on the supertree generated by Price and colleagues, several homoplasy events are needed to explain cetartiodactyl karyotype evolution. Our results apparently favour a model of non-random breakpoints in chromosome evolution. Cetariodactyl karyotype evolution is characterized by alternating periods of low and fast rates in various lineages. The highest rates are found in Suina (Suidae+Tayasuidae) lineage (1.76 rearrangements per million years (R/My)) and the lowest in Cetaceans (0.07 R/My). Our study demonstrates that the combined use of human and camel paints is highly informative for revealing evolutionary karyotypic rearrangements among cetartiodactyl species.
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- 2009
23. Avian comparative genomics: reciprocal chromosome painting between domestic chicken (Gallus gallus) and the stone curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus, Charadriiformes)—An atypical species with low diploid number
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Bee Ling Ng, Nigel P. Carter, Fengtang Yang, V. Volobouev, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Beiyuan Fu, and Wenhui Nie
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Charadriiformes ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Embryo, Nonmammalian ,animal structures ,Zoology ,Article ,Chromosome Painting ,Evolution, Molecular ,Species Specificity ,Genetics ,medicine ,Animals ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,Genome ,biology ,Cytogenetics ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,Genomics ,biology.organism_classification ,Diploidy ,Microchromosome ,Female ,Ploidy ,Burhinus ,Neoaves ,Chickens - Abstract
The chicken is the most extensively studied species in birds and thus constitutes an ideal reference for comparative genomics in birds. Comparative cytogenetic studies indicate that the chicken has retained many chromosome characters of the ancestral avian karyotype. The homology between chicken macrochromosomes (1–9 and Z) and their counterparts in more than 40 avian species of 10 different orders has been established by chromosome painting. However, the avian homologues of chicken micro-chromosomes remain to be defined. Moreover, no reciprocal chromosome painting in birds has been performed due to the lack of chromosome-specific probes from other avian species. Here we have generated a set of chromosome-specific paints using flow cytometry that cover the whole genome of the stone curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus, Charadriiformes), a species with one of the lowest diploid number so far reported in birds, as well as paints from more microchromosomes of the chicken. A genome-wide comparative map between the chicken and the stone curlew has been constructed for the first time based on reciprocal chromosome painting. The results indicate that extensive chromosome fusions underlie the sharp decrease in the diploid number in the stone curlew. To a lesser extent, chromosome fissions and inversions occurred also during the evolution of the stone curlew. It is anticipated that this complete set of chromosome painting probes from the first Neoaves species will become an invaluable tool for avian comparative cytogenetics.
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- 2009
24. Phylogenomics of the dog and fox family (Canidae, Carnivora) revealed by chromosome painting
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Polina L. Perelman, Stephen J. O'Brien, Gauthier Dobigny, Violetta R. Beklemisheva, Natalya V. Sokolovskaya, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, Natalya A. Serdukova, and Fengtang Yang
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Genetics ,Genome ,Foxes ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,Genomics ,Biology ,Human genetics ,Chromosome Painting ,Dogs ,Phylogenetics ,Molecular Probes ,Phylogenomics ,Carnivora ,Animals ,Humans ,Phylogeny ,Reference genome - Abstract
Canid species (dogs and foxes) have highly rearranged karyotypes and thus represent a challenge for conventional comparative cytogenetic studies. Among them, the domestic dog is one of the best-mapped species in mammals, constituting an ideal reference genome for comparative genomic study. Here we report the results of genome-wide comparative mapping of dog chromosome-specific probes onto chromosomes of the dhole, fennec fox, and gray fox, as well as the mapping of red fox chromosome-specific probes onto chromosomes of the corsac fox. We also present an integrated comparative chromosome map between the species studied here and all canids studied previously. The integrated map demonstrates an extensive conservation of whole chromosome arms across different canid species. In addition, we have generated a comprehensive genome phylogeny for the Canidae on the basis of the chromosome rearrangements revealed by comparative painting. This genome phylogeny has provided new insights into the karyotypic relationships among the canids. Our results, together with published data, allow the formulation of a likely Canidae ancestral karyotype (CAK, 2n = 82), and reveal that at least 6-24 chromosomal fission/fusion events are needed to convert the CAK karyotype to that of the modern canids.
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- 2008
25. Reciprocal chromosome painting between three laboratory rodent species
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Roscoe Stanyon, Vladimir A. Trifonov, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Fengtang Yang, Tangliang Li, Larisa S. Biltueva, Polina L. Perelman, Wenhui Nie, Svetlana A. Romanenko, V. Volobouev, Natalya A. Serdukova, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, and Jinhuan Wang
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Male ,animal diseases ,Hamster ,Chinese hamster ,Chromosome Painting ,Mice ,Cricetulus ,Cricetinae ,parasitic diseases ,Genetics ,Animals ,Cells, Cultured ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,Genome ,Mesocricetus ,biology ,Laboratory mouse ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,Physical Chromosome Mapping ,biology.organism_classification ,Chromosomes, Mammalian ,humanities ,Karyotyping ,Ploidy ,DNA Probes ,Golden hamster - Abstract
The laboratory mouse (Mus musculus, 2n = 40), the Chinese hamster (Cricetulus griseus, 2n = 22), and the golden (Syrian) hamster (Mesocricetus auratus, 2n = 44) are common laboratory animals, extensively used in biomedical research. In contrast with the mouse genome, which was sequenced and well characterized, the hamster species has been set aside. We constructed a chromosome paint set for the golden hamster, which for the first time allowed us to perform multidirectional chromosome painting between the golden hamster and the mouse and between the two species of hamster. From these data we constructed a detailed comparative chromosome map of the laboratory mouse and the two hamster species. The golden hamster painting probes revealed 25 autosomal segments in the Chinese hamster and 43 in the mouse. Using the Chinese hamster probes, 23 conserved segments were found in the golden hamster karyotype. The mouse probes revealed 42 conserved autosomal segments in the golden hamster karyotype. The two largest chromosomes of the Chinese hamster (1 and 2) are homologous to seven and five chromosomes of the golden hamster, respectively. The golden hamster karyotype can be transformed into the Chinese hamster karyotype by 15 fusions and 3 fissions. Previous reconstructions of the ancestral murid karyotype proposed diploid numbers from 2n = 52 to 2n = 54. By integrating the new multidirectional chromosome painting data presented here with previous comparative genomics data, we can propose that syntenies to mouse Chrs 6 and 16 were both present and to hypothesize a diploid number of 2n = 48 for the ancestral Murinae/Cricetinae karyotype.
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- 2006
26. Incomplete sister chromatid separation of long chromosome arms
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Francesca Degrassi, Liliana Torosantucci, Willem Rens, and Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith
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Male ,Nuclear Envelope ,Biology ,Eukaryotic chromosome structure ,Chromosomes ,Chromosome Painting ,Potoroidae ,Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ,Genetics ,Animals ,Sister chromatids ,Small supernumerary marker chromosome ,Mitosis ,Cells, Cultured ,Genetics (clinical) ,Microscopy, Video ,Sex Chromosomes ,Polytene chromosome ,Arvicolinae ,Karyotype ,Cell biology ,Spindle checkpoint ,Female ,Chromatid ,Sister Chromatid Exchange ,Cell Division - Abstract
Chromosome segregation ensures the equal partitioning of chromosomes at mitosis. However, long chromosome arms may pose a problem for complete sister chromatid separation. In this paper we report on the analysis of cell division in primary cells from field vole Microtus agrestis, a species with 52 chromosomes including two giant sex chromosomes. Dual chromosome painting with probes specific for the X and the Y chromosomes showed that these long chromosomes are prone to mis-segregate, producing DNA bridges between daughter nuclei and micronuclei. Analysis of mitotic cells with incomplete chromatid separation showed that reassembly of the nuclear membrane, deposition of INner CENtromere Protein (INCENP)/Aurora B to the spindle midzone and furrow formation occur while the two groups of daughter chromosomes are still connected by sex chromosome arms. Late cytokinetic processes are not efficiently inhibited by the incomplete segregation as in a significant number of cell divisions cytoplasmic abscission proceeds while Aurora B is at the midbody. Live-cell imaging during late mitotic stages also revealed abnormal cell division with persistent sister chromatid connections. We conclude that late mitotic regulatory events do not monitor incomplete sister chromatid separation of the large X and Y chromosomes of Microtus agrestis, leading to defective segregation of these chromosomes. These findings suggest a limit in chromosome arm length for efficient chromosome transmission through mitosis.
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- 2006
27. Comparative genome maps of the pangolin, hedgehog, sloth, anteater and human revealed by cross-species chromosome painting: further insight into the ancestral karyotype and genome evolution of eutherian mammals
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Yingxiang Wang, Natalya A. Serdukova, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, J. Wang, Beiyuan Fu, Fengtang Yang, Tangliang Li, Polina L. Perelman, V. Volobouev, Weiting Su, Gauthier Dobigny, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, Wenhui Nie, and Patricia C. M. O’Brien
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Male ,Genome evolution ,Synteny ,Chromosome Painting ,Genome diversity and karyotype evolution of mammals ,Evolution, Molecular ,03 medical and health sciences ,Species Specificity ,Convergent evolution ,Genetics ,Animals ,Humans ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,030304 developmental biology ,Mammals ,0303 health sciences ,Genome ,biology ,Genome, Human ,030305 genetics & heredity ,Pangolin ,Pholidota ,Xenarthra ,biology.organism_classification ,Chromosomes, Mammalian ,Hedgehogs ,Karyotyping ,Cytogenetic Analysis ,Female ,Afrotheria - Abstract
To better understand the evolution of genome organization of eutherian mammals, comparative maps based on chromosome painting have been constructed between human and representative species of three eutherian orders: Xenarthra, Pholidota, and Eulipotyphla, as well as between representative species of the Carnivora and Pholidota. These maps demonstrate the conservation of such syntenic segment associations as HSA3/21, 4/8, 7/16, 12/22, 14/15 and 16/19 in Eulipotyphla, Pholidota and Xenarthra and thus further consolidate the notion that they form part of the ancestral karyotype of the eutherian mammals. Our study has revealed many potential ancestral syntenic associations of human chromosomal segments that serve to link the families as well as orders within the major superordinial eutherian clades defined by molecular markers. The HSA2/8 and 7/10 associations could be the cytogenetic signatures that unite the Xenarthrans, while the HSA1/19p could be a putative signature that links the Afrotheria and Xenarthra. But caution is required in the interpretation of apparently shared syntenic associations as detailed analyses also show examples of apparent convergent evolution that differ in breakpoints and extent of the involved segments.
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- 2006
28. The elusive multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma (MSSE) gene: further mapping, analysis of candidates, and loss of heterozygosity
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, David Goudie, Frances M. Richards, L J Morgan, D R Booth, and Shikha Bose
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Genetics ,Cancer Research ,Mutation ,Polymorphism, Genetic ,Base Sequence ,Tumor suppressor gene ,Carcinoma ,Haplotype ,Loss of Heterozygosity ,Chromosome 9 ,Hybrid Cells ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Loss of heterozygosity ,Haplotypes ,Gene mapping ,medicine ,Humans ,Coding region ,Allele ,Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 ,Molecular Biology ,DNA Primers - Abstract
The MSSE gene predisposes to multiple invasive but self-healing skin tumours (multiple self-healing epitheliomata). MSSE was previously mapped to chromosome 9q22-q31 and a shared haplotype in affected families suggested a founder mutation. We have refined the MSSE critical region (
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- 2005
29. In the platypus a meiotic chain of ten sex chromosomes shares genes with the bird Z and mammal X chromosomes
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Nisrine El-Mogharbel, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Enkhjargal Tsend-Ayush, Frank Grützner, Willem Rens, and Russell C. Jones
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Male ,X Chromosome ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Biology ,Y chromosome ,Chromosome Painting ,Birds ,Evolution, Molecular ,Chromosome 16 ,Chromosome 18 ,Y Chromosome ,Chromosome 19 ,Animals ,Platypus ,Metaphase ,Mammals ,Genetics ,Sex Chromosomes ,Multidisciplinary ,Karyotype ,Sex Determination Processes ,Telomere ,Spermatozoa ,Meiosis ,Chromosome 4 ,Chromosome 3 ,Female ,Chromosome 21 - Abstract
Two centuries after the duck-billed platypus was discovered, monotreme chromosome systems remain deeply puzzling. Karyotypes of males, or of both sexes, were claimed to contain several unpaired chromosomes (including the X chromosome) that form a multi-chromosomal chain at meiosis. Such meiotic chains exist in plants and insects but are rare in vertebrates. How the platypus chromosome system works to determine sex and produce balanced gametes has been controversial for decades. Here we demonstrate that platypus have five male-specific chromosomes (Y chromosomes) and five chromosomes present in one copy in males and two copies in females (X chromosomes). These ten chromosomes form a multivalent chain at male meiosis, adopting an alternating pattern to segregate into XXXXX-bearing and YYYYY-bearing sperm. Which, if any, of these sex chromosomes bears one or more sex-determining genes remains unknown. The largest X chromosome, with homology to the human X chromosome, lies at one end of the chain, and a chromosome with homology to the bird Z chromosome lies near the other end. This suggests an evolutionary link between mammal and bird sex chromosome systems, which were previously thought to have evolved independently.
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- 2004
30. Refined genome-wide comparative map of the domestic horse, donkey and human based on cross-species chromosome painting: insight into the occasional fertility of mules
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Beiyuan Fu, Fengtang Yang, Wenhui Nie, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Oliver A. Ryder, and Patricia C. M. O’Brien
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Sterility ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Sequence Homology ,Fertility ,Biology ,Genome ,Chromosomes ,Chromosome Painting ,Genetics ,Animals ,Chromosomes, Human ,Humans ,Horses ,Metaphase ,media_common ,Genome, Human ,Chromosome Mapping ,Horse ,Equidae ,Human genetics ,Karyotyping ,Female ,Donkey ,Chromosome painting - Abstract
We have made a complete set of painting probes for the domestic horse by degenerate oligonucleotide-primed PCR amplification of flow-sorted horse chromosomes. The horse probes, together with a full set of those available for human, were hybridized onto metaphase chromosomes of human, horse and mule. Based on the hybridization results, we have generated genome-wide comparative chromosome maps involving the domestic horse, donkey and human. These maps define the overall distribution and boundaries of evolutionarily conserved chromosomal segments in the three genomes. Our results shed further light on the karyotypic relationships among these species and, in particular, the chromosomal rearrangements that underlie hybrid sterility and the occasional fertility of mules.
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- 2004
31. Chromosome evolution in bears: reconstructing phylogenetic relationships by cross-species chromosome painting
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Ying Tian, Wenhui Nie, Fengtang Yang, and Jinhuan Wang
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Lions ,Male ,Neofelis ,Autosome ,biology ,Phylogenetic tree ,Chromosome Mapping ,Zoology ,Leopard ,Karyotype ,biology.organism_classification ,Chromosome Painting ,Evolution, Molecular ,Dogs ,Phylogenetics ,Karyotyping ,biology.animal ,Cats ,Genetics ,Animals ,Panthera ,Carnivore ,Conserved Sequence ,Phylogeny ,Ursidae - Abstract
Genome-wide homology maps among dog (Canis familiaris, CFA, 2n = 78), African lion (Panthera leo, PLE, 2n = 38), clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa, NNE, 2n = 38) and Malayan sun bear (Helartos malayanus, HMA, 2n = 74) have been established by chromosome painting using a complete set of dog probes. In total, chromosome-specific painting probes from the 38 dog autosomes reveal 69, 69 and 73 conserved segments in African lion, clouded leopard and Malayan sun bear, respectively. The chromosomal painting results show that the African lion and clouded leopard have an identical karyotype which, in turn, is similar to that previously published for the cat (Felis catus, FCA 2n = 38). The findings confirm and extend other studies that show felids to be karyotypically conserved. In contrast, ursids, including the Malayan sun bear, have a relatively highly rearranged karyotype in comparison with other carnivores. The 2n = 74 karyotype of the Malayan sun bear, which is believed to closely resemble the ancestral karyotype of the Ursidae, could have evolved from the 2n = 42 putative ancestral carnivore karyotype by an inversion and 16 centric fissions. Independent fusions of the acrocentric ancestral chromosomes have generated the unique karyotypes of the giant panda and the spectacled bear.
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- 2004
32. Introduction
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Nigel P. Carter, and Jaroslav Dolezel
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Flow (mathematics) ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Genetics ,medicine ,Cytogenetics ,Computational biology ,Chromosome painting ,Biology ,Flow cytometry - Published
- 2004
33. [Untitled]
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Ian K. Greaves, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Willem Rens, Darren K. Griffin, and Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
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Genetics ,biology ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,biology.organism_classification ,Sperm ,X-inactivation ,embryonic structures ,Homologous chromosome ,Genomic imprinting ,reproductive and urinary physiology ,X chromosome ,Marsupial - Abstract
We used chromosome painting to show directly that chromosomes occupy fixed positions in the nuclei of mammal but not chicken sperm. We found that the positions of homologous chromosomes are conserved in sperm of two marsupial species that diverged 50–60 million years ago. We also discovered that the X chromosome lies in the region that makes first contact with the egg in marsupial and monotreme mammals, as well as eutherians, and suggest that this position may be related to its propensity for inactivation, and its high rate of loss from ICSI embryos. We propose that nuclear architecture in sperm is important for spatial chromatin differentiation and normal development of the fertilized egg, and evolved along with mammal-specific regulatory systems such as X inactivation and genomic imprinting.
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- 2003
34. [Untitled]
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Beiyuan Fu, Tian Ying, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Fengtang Yang, Jinhuan Wang, Wenhui Nie, and Patricia C. M. O’Brien
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biology ,G banding ,biology.animal ,Genetics ,Mustelidae ,Martes flavigula ,Zoology ,Karyotype ,Meles ,Ferret-badger ,American mink ,biology.organism_classification ,Marten - Abstract
Genome-wide homology maps among stone marten (Martes foina, 2n = 38), domestic cat (Felis catus, 2n = 38), American mink (Mustela vison, 2n = 30), yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula, 2n = 40), Old World badger (Meles meles, 2n = 44), ferret badger (Melogale moschata, 2n = 38) and red panda (Ailurus fulgens, 2n = 36) have been established by cross-species chromosome painting with a complete set of stone marten probes. In total, 18 stone marten autosomal probes reveal 20, 19, 21, 18 and 21 pairs of homologous chromosomal segments in the respective genomes of American mink, yellow-throated marten, Old World badger, ferret badger and red panda. Reciprocal painting between stone marten and cat delineated 21 pairs of homologous segments shared in both stone marten and cat genomes. The chromosomal painting results indicate that most chromosomes of these species are highly conserved and show one-to-one correspondence with stone marten and cat chromosomes or chromosomal arms, and that only a few interchromosomal rearrangements (Robertsonian fusions and fissions) have occurred during species radiation. By comparing the distribution patterns of conserved chromosomal segments in both these species and the putative ancestral carnivore karyotype, we have reconstructed the pathway of karyotype evolution of these species from the putative 2n = 42 ancestral carnivore karyotype. Our results support a close phylogenetic relationship between the red panda and mustelids. The homology data presented in these maps will allow us to transfer the cat gene mapping data to other unmapped carnivore species.
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- 2002
35. [Untitled]
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Alexander S. Graphodatsky, Patricia Caroline Mary O’Brien, B.S. Milne, Vladimir A. Trifonov, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Fengtang Yang, and Natalya A. Serdukova
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Genetics ,Autosome ,Euchromatin ,G banding ,Chromosome ,Chromosomal translocation ,Karyotype ,Biology ,The arctic ,biology.animal ,parasitic diseases ,Arctic fox ,geographic locations - Abstract
A complete set of paint probes, with each probe specific for a single type of dog chromosome, was generated by DOP-PCR amplification of flow-sorted chromosomes. These probes have been assigned to high-resolution G-banded chromosomes of the dog and Arctic fox by fluorescence in-situ hybridization. On the basis of these results we propose improved nomenclature for the G-banded karyotypes of the dog and Artic fox. A comparative map between the Arctic fox, red fox and dog has been established based on results from chromosome painting and high-resolution G-banding. This map demonstrates that the euchromatic complements of these three canid species consists of 42 conserved segments. Thirty-four of these 42 segments are each represented by a single dog chromosome with dog chromosomes 1, 13, 18 and 19 each retaining two segments, respectively. The autosomes of the Arctic fox and red fox could be reconstructed from these 42 blocks in different combinations through chromosomal fusions. Our findings suggest that chromosome fusion has been the principal mechanism of karyotype evolution occuring during speciation in canids.
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- 2000
36. [Untitled]
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Patricia Caroline Mary O’Brien, and Fengtang Yang
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Genetics ,Genome evolution ,Autosome ,biology ,Chromosome ,biology.organism_classification ,Molecular biology ,Genome ,humanities ,Chinese hamster ,Gene mapping ,Chromosomal region ,Homologous chromosome - Abstract
Cross-species reciprocal chromosome painting was used to determine homologous chromosomal regions between the laboratory mouse and Chinese hamster. When mouse chromosome-specific paints were hybridized to Chinese hamster chromosomes, paints specific for mouse chromosomes 3, 4, 9, 14, 18, 19 and X each painted a single chromosomal region, whilst other mouse paints delineated multiple discrete chromosomal regions. The mouse Y paint produced non-specific signals on Chinese hamster chromosomes. Nineteen mouse autosome paints identified a total of 47 homologous chromosome regions in the genome of the Chinese hamster. Hybridization of Chinese hamster paints to mouse chromosomes not only confirmed the above results, but also identified which of the chromosomal regions of these two species were homologous. In total, 10 Chinese hamster autosomal paints detected 38 homologous autosomal segments in the mouse genome. A comparative chromosome map was established based on these reciprocal chromosome painting patterns. This map forms the basis for exchanging gene mapping information between the species and for studying genome evolution.
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- 2000
37. [Untitled]
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C. Schelling, B.S. Milne, Fengtang Yang, David R. Sargan, D. Ladon, J. Schläpfer, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, A. Pienkowska, Marek Switonski, Gaudenz Dolf, and A.A. Bosma
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Genetics ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Genetic marker ,Genetic linkage ,Cosmid ,Chromosome ,%22">Fish ,Polymorphic Microsatellite Marker ,Biology ,Metaphase ,DNA - Abstract
We have developed a novel method for identifying dog chromosomes and unambiguously mapping specific clones onto canine chromosomes. This method uses a previously established red fox/dog comparative chromosome map to guide the FISH mapping of cloned canine DNA. Mixing metaphase preparations of the red fox and dog enabled a single hybridization to be performed on both species. We used this approach to map the chromosomal locations of twenty-six canine cosmids. Each cosmid contains highly polymorphic microsatellite markers currently used by the DogMap project to compile the canine linkage map. All but two cosmids were successfully assigned to subchromosomal regions on red fox and dog chromosomes. For eight cosmids previously mapped on dog chromosomes, we confirmed and refined the canine chromosomal assignments of seven cosmids and corrected an erroneous assignment regarding cosmid CanBern1. These results demonstrate that the red fox and dog comparative chromosome map can greatly improve the accuracy and efficiency of chromosomal assignments of canine genetic markers by FISH.
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- 2000
38. [Untitled]
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, David R. Sargan, Amanda Colabella, Nita Solanky, Michael Squire, and Fengtang Yang
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Genetics ,Genome evolution ,Autosome ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,Chromosome painting ,Biology ,Genome ,X chromosome ,Human genetics - Abstract
Domestic cats and dogs are important companion animals and model animals in biomedical research. The cat has a highly conserved karyotype, closely resembling the ancestral karyotype of mammals, while the dog has one of the most extensively rearranged mammalian karyotypes investigated so far. We have constructed the first detailed comparative chromosome map of the domestic dog and cat by reciprocal chromosome painting. Dog paints specific for the 38 autosomes and the X chromosomes delineated 68 conserved chromosomal segments in the cat, while reverse painting of cat probes onto red fox and dog chromosomes revealed 65 conserved segments. Most conserved segments on cat chromosomes also show a high degree of conservation in G-banding patterns compared with their canine counterparts. At least 47 chromosomal fissions (breaks), 25 fusions and one inversion are needed to convert the cat karyotype to that of the dog, confirming that extensive chromosome rearrangements differentiate the karyotypes of the cat and dog. Comparative analysis of the distribution patterns of conserved segments defined by dog paints on cat and human chromosomes has refined the human/cat comparative genome map and, most importantly, has revealed 15 cryptic inversions in seven large chromosomal regions of conserved synteny between humans and cats.
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- 2000
39. [Untitled]
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Roscoe Stanyon, Charles Lee, Chyi-Chyang Lin, and Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith
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Genetics ,Autosome ,biology ,Satellite DNA ,biology.animal ,Centromere ,Homologous chromosome ,Primate ,Repeated sequence ,Macaque ,X chromosome - Abstract
Gamma-X satellite DNA is a 220-bp tandemly arranged repetitive DNA with specificity for the centromeric region of the human X chromosome. The conservation of this human X centromeric satellite DNA sequence in primate species was evaluated by comparative fluorescence in-situ hybridization to metaphase chromosome preparations of the great apes and three Old World monkeys. Homologous gamma-X DNA were detected at centromeric locations in all six primate species. For the great apes, gamma-X was exclusively localized to the centromeric regions of the X chromosomes. Among the Old World monkeys studied, only the golden monkey exhibited localization to the X chromosome. In the black-and-white colobus and the pig-tailed macaque, human gamma-X sequences were localized to the pericentromeric regions of autosomes 1 and 4, respectively.
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- 1999
40. [Untitled]
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Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Roland Toder, N. Guedelha, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Patricia Caroline Mary O’Brien, Lucille Voullaire, and A. A. De Leo
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biology ,Chromosome regions ,Genetics ,Zoology ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,Lasiorhinus latifrons ,biology.organism_classification ,Y chromosome ,Macropus ,X chromosome ,Marsupial - Abstract
A 2n = 14 karyotype is shared by some species in each of the marsupial orders in Australian and American superfamilies, suggesting that the ancestral marsupial chromosome complement was 2n = 14. We have used chromosome painting between distantly related marsupial species to discover whether genome arrangements in 2n = 14 species in two Australian orders support this hypothesis. Cross-species chromosome painting was used to investigate chromosome rearrangements between a macropodid species Macropus eugenii (2n = 16) and a wombat species in a different suborder (Lasiorhinus latifrons, 2n = 14), and a dasyurid species in a different order (Sminthopsis macroura, 2n = 14). We demonstrate that many chromosome regions are conserved between all three species, and deduce how the similar 2n = 14 karyotypes of species in the two orders are related to a common ancestral 2n = 14 karyotype.
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- 1999
41. [Untitled]
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Patricia Caroline Mary O’Brien, A. A. De Leo, R. Glas, K. Reid, Michael Westerman, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, and Margaret L. Delbridge
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Genetics ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,biology ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,biology.organism_classification ,Genome ,Tammar wallaby ,medicine ,Dorcopsis ,X chromosome ,Fluorescence in situ hybridization ,Marsupial - Abstract
In order to deduce the ancestral genome arrangement in the karyotypically diverse marsupial family Macropodidae, and to assess chromosome change in this family, chromosome-specific paints from the tammar wallaby (2n = 16) were hybridized to metaphase spreads from the two species proposed to represent the 2n = 22 ancestral karyotype, as well as species with derived 2n = 20 and 2n = 14 karyotypes. Identical patterns were observed in the two 2n = 22 species, from which the rearrangements to form the three derived karyotypes may be easily deduced to be 1, 3 and 4 different fusions, respectively. The identical Thylogale and Dorcopsis genomes may both be used to represent the pleisiomorphic macropodid chromosome complement. Variation in the X chromosome was also investigated by hybridizing an X-Y shared tammar wallaby 12-kb repeat element to chromosomes from the other four macropodid species, finding that it hybridized only to the most closely related species, and therefore is of recent origin.
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- 1999
42. [Untitled]
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Fengtang Yang, Patricia Caroline Mary O’Brien, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, and Willem Rens
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Genetics ,biology ,Gene mapping ,Phylogenetics ,Potorous tridactylus ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,biology.organism_classification ,Sminthopsis crassicaudata ,Macropus ,Marsupial - Abstract
Marsupial karyotypes have shown extensive conservation even between distantly related groups with a high diversity of life forms and reproductive biology. Banding analysis has been the main test for assessing their homologies and chromosome rearrangements. More recently, cross-species reciprocal chromosome painting has been developed and applied to several mammalian species and has shown homologies and rearrangements not revealed by banding analysis. Karyotype relationships between four marsupial species, Sminthopsis crassicaudata, Potorous tridactylus, Trichosurus vulpecula and Macropus eugenii, which are from different families in two orders, were investigated and presented in the form of comparative chromosome maps. These show that only a limited number of chromosomal rearrangements have occurred during their evolution. A karyotype phylogeny of the four marsupials was derived from these maps. A comparison between published gene location and the comparative chromosome maps for these species is presented and inconsistencies with previous gene mapping data indicated.
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- 1999
43. [Untitled]
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Carol Jones, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, D. F. Hill, Johannes Wienberg, T. E. Broad, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, and Dean J. Burkin
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Genetics ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Chromosome ,Robertsonian translocation ,Chromosomal translocation ,Karyotype ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Molecular biology ,law.invention ,law ,medicine ,Genomic library ,Metaphase ,Polymerase chain reaction ,Fluorescence in situ hybridization - Abstract
High-resolution bivariate flow karyotypes were obtained using fibroblast cell lines from a sheep with a normal karyotype (2n=54), from sheep carrying Robertsonian translocation chromosomes and from sheep—hamster somatic cell hybrids. By taking advantage of the presence of chromosome polymorphisms, translocation chromosomesand sheep—hamster somatic cell hybrids, all sheep chromosomes were isolated by flow sorting. Chromosome-specific paints were generated from each sorted peak using degenerate oligonucleotide-primed polymerase chain reaction (DOP-PCR). The sheep chromosome present in each peak was identified by chromosome-specific microsatellite analysis of the DOP-PCR products and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) onto DAPI-banded sheep metaphase chromosomes. The chromosome-specific DNA obtained in this study can be used for the production of genomic libraries and as a resource for mapping randomly cloned DNA sequences that will greatly aid the construction of genetic and physical maps in the sheep. The chromosome-specific paints will facilitate chromosome identification and contribute to the study of karyotype evolution in the sheep and related species.
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- 1997
44. Multicolour spectral karyotyping of mouse chromosomes
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S du Manoir, Robert B. Dickson, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Allen E. Coleman, Evelin Schröck, Thomas Ried, T Veldman, Marek Liyanage, Carrolee Barlow, Siegfried Janz, S McCormack, and Johannes Wienberg
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Genetically modified mouse ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Genes, myc ,Aneuploidy ,Cell Cycle Proteins ,Mice, Inbred Strains ,Mice, Transgenic ,Chromosomal translocation ,Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins ,Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases ,Biology ,Chromosomes ,Mice ,Neoplasms ,Centromere ,Genetics ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,Chromosome Aberrations ,Mice, Inbred BALB C ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Tumor Suppressor Proteins ,Cytogenetics ,Proteins ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,medicine.disease ,Molecular biology ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,Disease Models, Animal ,Karyotyping ,Plasmacytoma ,Fluorescence in situ hybridization - Abstract
Murine models of human carcinogenesis are exceedingly valuable tools to understand genetic mechanisms of neoplastic growth. The identification of recurrent chromosomal rearrangements by cytogenetic techniques serves as an initial screening test for tumour specific aberrations. In murine models of human carcinogenesis, however, karyotype analysis is technically demanding because mouse chromosomes are acrocentric and of similar size. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with mouse chromosome specific painting probes can complement conventional banding analysis. Although sensitive and specific, FISH analyses are restricted to the visualization of only a few mouse chromosomes at a time. Here we apply a novel imaging technique that we developed recently for the visualization of human chromosomes to the simultaneous discernment of all mouse chromosomes. The approach is based on spectral imaging to measure chromosome-specific spectra after FISH with differentially labelled mouse chromosome painting probes. Utilizing a combination of Fourier spectroscopy, CCD-imaging and conventional optical microscopy, spectral imaging allows simultaneous measurement of the fluorescence emission spectrum at all sample points. A spectrum-based classification algorithm has been adapted to karyotype mouse chromosomes. We have applied spectral karyotyping (SKY) to chemically induced plasmocytomas, mammary gland tumours from transgenic mice overexpressing the c-myc oncogene and thymomas from mice deficient for the ataxia telangiectasia (Atm) gene. Results from these analyses demonstrate the potential of SKY to identify complex chromosomal aberrations in mouse models of human carcinogenesis.
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- 1996
45. Chromosome specific paints from a high resolution flow karyotype of the mouse
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Amanda C. Heppell-Parton, Cordelia Langford, Helen Impey, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, David Bailey, Nigel P. Carter, Nicholas Lowe, Charles Tease, and Pamela Rabbitts
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Molecular Probe Techniques ,Chromosomal translocation ,Biology ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Genome ,Chromosomes ,Translocation, Genetic ,Mice ,Gene mapping ,Genetics ,medicine ,Animals ,Metaphase ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,DNA Primers ,Mice, Inbred C3H ,Autosome ,Base Sequence ,Cytogenetics ,Chromosome ,Karyotype ,Flow Cytometry ,Molecular biology ,DNA Probes - Abstract
Using peripheral blood lymphocyte cultures and duallaser flow cytometry, we have routinely obtained high-resolution bivariate flow karyotypes of the dog in which 32 peaks are resolved. To allow the identification of the chromosome types in each peak, chromosomes were flow sorted, amplified and labelled by polymerase chain reaction with partially degenerate primers and hybridized onto metaphase spreads of a male dog. The chromosome paints from 22 of the 32 peaks each hybridized to single homologue pairs and eight peaks each hybridized to two pairs. Paints from the remaining two peaks hybridized to only one homologue each in the male metaphase spread, thus corresponding to the sex chromosomes X and Y. All of the 38 pairs of autosomes and the two sex chromosomes of the dog could be accounted for in these painting experiments. The positions of chromosomes 1–21 were assigned to the flow karyotype (only chromosomes 1–21 have as yet been officially designated). The high-resolution flow karyotype and the chromosome paints will facilitate further standardization of the dog karyotype. The ability to sort sufficient quantities of dog chromosomes for the production of chromosome-specific DNA libraries has the potential to accelerate the physical and genetic mapping of the dog genome.
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- 1995
46. Molecular genetic investigation of sporadic renal cell carcinoma: analysis of allele loss on chromosomes 3p, 5q, 11p, 17 and 22
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E. Bentley, P A Crossey, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Eamonn R. Maher, Nabeel A. Affara, J. W. Hetherington, Paul Cairns, Keith Foster, Michael H. Jones, and Frances M. Richards
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Adult ,Male ,Heterozygote ,Cancer Research ,Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22 ,Chromosomal translocation ,Locus (genetics) ,Biology ,Loss of heterozygosity ,Chromosome 15 ,Humans ,Carcinoma, Renal Cell ,Alleles ,X chromosome ,Aged ,Genetics ,Autosome ,Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11 ,Chromosome Mapping ,Middle Aged ,Molecular biology ,Kidney Neoplasms ,Oncology ,Chromosome 3 ,Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5 ,Female ,Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3 ,Chromosome Deletion ,Chromosome 21 ,Research Article - Abstract
To investigate the role of tumour-suppressor genes on the short arm of chromosome 3 in the mechanism of tumorigenesis in non-familial renal cell carcinoma, we analysed 55 paired blood-tumour DNA samples for allele loss on chromosome 3p and in the region of known or putative tumour-suppressor genes on chromosomes 5, 11, 17 and 22. Sixty-four per cent (35/55) of informative tumours showed loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of at least one locus on the short arm of chromosome 3, compared with only 13% at the p53 tumour-suppressor gene and 6% at 17q21. LOH at chromosome 5q21 and 22q was uncommon (2-3%). Detailed analysis of the regions of LOH on chromosome 3p suggested that, in addition to the VHL gene in chromosome 3p25-p26, mutations in one or more tumour-suppressor genes in chromosome 3p13-p24 may be involved in the pathogenesis of sporadic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). We also confirmed previous suggestions that chromosome 3p allele loss is not a feature of papillary RCC (P < 0.05). Images Figure 2
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- 1994
47. Genome sequence of an Australian kangaroo, Macropus eugenii, provides insight into the evolution of mammalian reproduction and development
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Joshua Y Shen, Yoko Kuroki, Lynne V. Nazareth, Shafagh Al Nadaf, Terence P. Speed, Katherine Belov, Kevin R. Nicholas, James Lindsay, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Anthony T. Papenfuss, Arthur Hsu, Stephen Frankenberg, Hannah V. Siddle, Shalini N. Jhangiani, Fremiet Lara, Jireh Santibanez, Thomas N. Heider, Jixin Deng, Margaret Morgan, Xing-Zhi Henry Song, Rebecca Thornton, Benjamin James Lansdell, Frank W. Nicholas, A. Men, Carmen Troon, Shinji Kondo, William A O'Hara, Christophe Lefevre, Susan M. Forrest, San Juana Ruiz, Geoffrey Okwuonu, Chenwei Wang, Andrew Cree, Yanqiu Hu, Matthew Wakefield, Kyall R. Zenger, Rachel J. O’Neill, Donna M. Muzny, Benjamin G. Cocks, Huyen Dinh, Kaighin A. McColl, Geoff Shaw, Kim C. Worley, Hongshi Yu, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Asao Fujiyama, Andrew J Pask, Keng Yih Chew, Janine E. Deakin, Lankesha Yapa, Elizabeth Kuczek, Tanya Levchenko, George M. Weinstock, Kirsty R. Short, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Yutaka Suzuki, Mehlika Hazar-Rethinam, Chyn Jing, Yuichiro Nishida, Gerald R. Fowler, Paul D. Waters, Lora Lewis, Elizabeth A. Pharo, Timothy A. Hore, Nanette Y. Schneider, Susan Fairley, Danielle Hickford, Zhi-Ping Feng, Annette McGrath, Vandita Joshi, Willem Rens, Jianghui Wang, Javier Herrero, Desmond W. Cooper, Christie Kovar, Kathryn Beal, Daniel Thomas, Yogi Sundaravadanam, Stephen M. J. Searle, David L. A. Wood, Marilyn B. Renfree, Yue-E Liu, Dawn M. Carone, A Mohammadi, Amber E. Stephens, Shoji Tatsumoto, Jessica M Stringer, John Davis, Allison Hall, Sumio Sugano, Peter A Wilson, Margaret L. Delbridge, Atsushi Toyoda, Paul Flicek, Emily S. W. Wong, Lei Chen, Ion Mandiou, Shunsuke Suzuki, Brandon R. Menzies, Richard A. Gibbs, Janette Edson, Sarah E. Williams, Chen-Chen Wu, Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm [0000-0001-9372-1381], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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0106 biological sciences ,Molecular Sequence Data ,wallaby ,Sequence assembly ,Zoology ,Genomics ,Genome ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,DNA sequencing ,Mammalian reproduction ,symbols.namesake ,03 medical and health sciences ,Genomic Imprinting ,0302 clinical medicine ,Tammar wallaby ,Marsupial ,Animals ,Macropus ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,030304 developmental biology ,Genetics ,Sanger sequencing ,Whole genome sequencing ,Macropodidae ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,Research ,Reproduction ,Australia ,Correction ,Chromosome Mapping ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,biology.organism_classification ,Research Highlight ,Biological Evolution ,Chromosomes, Mammalian ,kangaroo ,MicroRNAs ,Gene Expression Regulation ,symbols ,Female ,Transcriptome ,Sequence Alignment ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
BACKGROUND: We present the genome sequence of the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii, which is a member of the kangaroo family and the first representative of the iconic hopping mammals that symbolize Australia to be sequenced. The tammar has many unusual biological characteristics, including the longest period of embryonic diapause of any mammal, extremely synchronized seasonal breeding and prolonged and sophisticated lactation within a well-defined pouch. Like other marsupials, it gives birth to highly altricial young, and has a small number of very large chromosomes, making it a valuable model for genomics, reproduction and development. RESULTS: The genome has been sequenced to 2 × coverage using Sanger sequencing, enhanced with additional next generation sequencing and the integration of extensive physical and linkage maps to build the genome assembly. We also sequenced the tammar transcriptome across many tissues and developmental time points. Our analyses of these data shed light on mammalian reproduction, development and genome evolution: there is innovation in reproductive and lactational genes, rapid evolution of germ cell genes, and incomplete, locus-specific X inactivation. We also observe novel retrotransposons and a highly rearranged major histocompatibility complex, with many class I genes located outside the complex. Novel microRNAs in the tammar HOX clusters uncover new potential mammalian HOX regulatory elements. CONCLUSIONS: Analyses of these resources enhance our understanding of marsupial gene evolution, identify marsupial-specific conserved non-coding elements and critical genes across a range of biological systems, including reproduction, development and immunity, and provide new insight into marsupial and mammalian biology and genome evolution.
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- 2011
48. Physical mapping of chromosome 3p25-p26 by flourescence in situ hybridisation (FISH)
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Yusuke Nakamura, Farida Latif, Maude E. Phipps, Nabeel A. Affara, M.A. Leversha, Berton Zbar, Eamonn R. Maher, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, M. E. Ferguson-Smith, and Michael I. Lerman
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Genetics ,In situ ,medicine.medical_specialty ,von Hippel-Lindau Disease ,Breakpoint ,Cytogenetics ,Chromosome Mapping ,Chromosome ,Biology ,Gene mapping ,Chromosome regions ,medicine ,Cosmid ,Humans ,Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3 ,DNA Probes ,Gene ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,Genetics (clinical) ,Cell Line, Transformed - Abstract
As part of our effort to isolate and characterise the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease gene, we constructed a physical map of chromosome 3p25-26 by fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) studies on a panel of cytogenetic rearrangements involving this region. Biotinylated cosmid and lambda probes were hybridised to metaphase chromosome spreads and positioned with respect to each cytogenetic breakpoint. These studies unequivocally established the order of five loci linked to the VHL disease gene: cen-(RAF1,312)-D3S732-D3S1250-D3S601-D3S18 -pter and determined the position of three other probes within this map. These results ordered RAF1 and D3S732 for the first time, confirmed the localisation of D3S1250 between RAF1 and D3S601 and determined the position of D3S651 with respect to other chromosome 3p25-p26 loci. The establishment of an ordered set of cytogenetic aberrations will enable the rapid assignment of polymorphic and nonpolymorphic cloned sequences within the chromosome region 3p25-p26.
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- 1993
49. Multiple self–healing squamous epitheliomata (ESS1) mapped to chromosome 9q22–q31 in families with common ancestry
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M.A. Leversha, Martin A.R. Yuille, Robert A. Furlong, D.R. Goudie, Nabeel A. Affara, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Michael Lush, and Nigel P. Carter
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Genetic Markers ,Male ,Skin Neoplasms ,Genetic Linkage ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Locus (genetics) ,Biology ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Genetic linkage ,Genetics ,Humans ,Allele ,Gene ,Alleles ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,Base Sequence ,Haplotype ,Chromosome Mapping ,Chromosome ,DNA ,Oncogenes ,Pedigree ,Haplotypes ,Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous ,Genetic marker ,Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ,Female ,Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 ,DNA Probes ,Recombination Fraction - Abstract
A gene (ESS1) predisposing to the development of multiple invasive but self-healing skin tumours (squamous cell epitheliomata) is tightly linked to the polymorphic DNA marker D9S53 (9q31) with a maximum lod score of 9.02 at a recombination fraction of 0.03. Multipoint linkage analysis demonstrates that the disease locus is most likely to lie between D9S58 (9q22.3-31) and ASSP3 (9q11-q22). Comparison of markers associated with ESS1 in independently ascertained families suggests a common origin of the disease and defines the location of ESS1. Haplotype studies indicate that the disease locus is most likely to lie between D9S29 (9q31) and D9S1 (9q22.1-q22.2).
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- 1993
50. Disruption of chromosome 11 in canine fibrosarcomas highlights an unusual variability of CDKN2B in dogs
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Jane Dobson, T. Hoather, David R. Sargan, B.S. Milne, Sean Haugland, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Jesús Aguirre-Hernández, Chris Queen, Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm [0000-0001-9372-1381], Dobson, Jane [0000-0002-7121-014X], Sargan, David [0000-0001-9897-2489], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial ,Derivative chromosome ,Fibrosarcoma ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Loss of Heterozygosity ,Biology ,Chromosomes ,Loss of heterozygosity ,Exon ,Dogs ,CDKN2A ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Amino Acid Sequence ,Dog Diseases ,Allele ,Gene ,Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p15 ,Genetics ,lcsh:Veterinary medicine ,Polymorphism, Genetic ,General Veterinary ,Cytogenetics ,Chromosome ,Genetic Variation ,Nucleic Acid Hybridization ,General Medicine ,veterinary(all) ,Molecular biology ,lcsh:SF600-1100 ,Female ,Sequence Alignment ,Research Article - Abstract
Background In dogs in the western world neoplasia constitutes the most frequently diagnosed cause of death. Although there appear to be similarities between canine and human cancers, rather little is known about the cytogenetic and molecular alterations in canine tumours. Different dog breeds are susceptible to different types of cancer, but the genetic basis of the great majority of these predispositions has yet to be discovered. In some retriever breeds there is a high incidence of soft tissue sarcomas and we have previously reported alterations of chromosomes 11 and 30 in two poorly differentiated fibrosarcomas. Here we extend our observations and present a case report on detail rearrangements on chromosome 11 as well as genetic variations in a tumour suppressor gene in normal dogs. Results BAC hybridisations on metaphases of two fibrosarcomas showed complex rearrangements on chromosome 11, and loss of parts of this chromosome. Microsatellite markers on a paired tumour and blood DNA pointed to loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 11 in the CDKN2B-CDKN2A tumour suppressor gene cluster region. PCR and sequencing revealed the homozygous loss of coding sequences for these genes, except for exon 1β of CDKN2A, which codes for the N-terminus of p14ARF. For CDKN2B exon 1, two alleles were observed in DNA from blood; one of them identical to the sequence in the dog reference genome and containing 4 copies of a 12 bp repeat found only in the canine gene amongst all species so far sequenced; the other allele was shorter due to a missing copy of the repeat. Sequencing of this exon in 141 dogs from 18 different breeds revealed a polymorphic region involving a GGC triplet repeat and a GGGGACGGCGGC repeat. Seven alleles were recorded and sixteen of the eighteen breeds showed heterozygosity. Conclusion Complex chromosome rearrangements were observed on chromosome 11 in two Labrador retriever fibrosarcomas. The chromosome alterations were reflected in the loss of sequences corresponding to two tumour suppressor genes involved in cell-cycle progression. Sequencing of CDKN2B across many different breeds revealed a widespread polymorphism within the first exon of the gene, immediately before the ankyrin coding sequences.
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- 2009
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