- 著者
- Shuri Kato Asako Matsumoto Kensuke Yoshimura Toshio Katsuki Kojiro Iwamoto Yoshiaki Tsuda Shogo Ishio Kentaro Nakamura Kazuo Moriwaki Toshihiko Shiroishi Takashi Gojobori Hiroshi Yoshimaru
- 出版者
- 日本育種学会
- 雑誌
- Breeding Science (ISSN:13447610)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.62, no.3, pp.248-255, 2012 (Released:2012-11-01)
- 参考文献数
- 36
- 被引用文献数
- 4 18
Numerous cultivars of Japanese flowering cherry (Prunus subgenus Cerasus) are recognized, but in many cases they are difficult to distinguish morphologically. Therefore, we evaluated the clonal status of 215 designated cultivars using 17 SSR markers. More than half the cultivars were morphologically distinct and had unique genotypes. However, 22 cultivars were found to consist of multiple clones, which probably originate from the chance seedlings, suggesting that their unique characteristics have not been maintained through propagation by grafting alone. We also identified 23 groups consisting of two or more cultivars with identical genotypes. Most members of these groups were putatively synonymously related and morphologically identical. However, some of them were probably derived from bud sport mutants and had distinct morphologies. SSR marker analysis provided useful insights into the clonal status of the examined Japanese flowering cherry cultivars and proved to be a useful tool for cultivar characterization.
2 0 0 0 OA Genetic Differences among C57BL/6 Substrains
- 著者
- Kazuyuki MEKADA Kuniya ABE Ayumi MURAKAMI Satoe NAKAMURA Hatsumi NAKATA Kazuo MORIWAKI Yuichi OBATA Atsushi YOSHIKI
- 出版者
- 公益社団法人 日本実験動物学会
- 雑誌
- Experimental Animals (ISSN:13411357)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.58, no.2, pp.141-149, 2009 (Released:2009-05-16)
- 参考文献数
- 33
- 被引用文献数
- 76 267
The C57BL/6 mouse is the most well-known inbred mouse strain, and has been widely used as a genetic background for congenic and mutant mice. A number of C57BL/6 substrains have been derived from the C57BL/6 founder line and are reported to differ in several phenotypes. There are several major sources of C57BL/6 substrains for the biomedical research community. The importance of their genetic and phenotypic differences among substrains, however, has not yet been well recognized by biomedical researchers. Here, we report the result of screening of the functional deletion of the nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase (Nnt) gene and 1,446 SNPs genotyping among seven C57BL/6 substrains from different sources, such as C57BL/6J, C57BL/6JJcl, C57BL/6JJmsSlc, C57BL/6NJcl, C57BL/6NCrlCrlj, C57BL/6NTac, and C57BL/6CrSlc. The deletion of exon 7-11 in the Nnt gene that was previously reported in C57BL/6J was also observed in other C57BL/6J substrains, indicating that this functional deletion probably occurred at an early stage in the establishment of C57BL/6J substrains. The genotyping of SNP loci clearly demonstrate genetic differences between C57BL/6J and C57BL/6N substrains at 11 loci. Besides, we found another SNP differing between C57BL/6J and other C57BL/6J substrains available from commercial breeders. No genetic difference was detected among C57BL/6N substrains. The C57BL/6CrSlc mouse, originally derived from the National Cancer Institute of the NIH was found to be the same as the C57BL/6N substrains by the SNP pattern. These data will be useful for accurate genetic monitoring of genetically engineered mice with the C57BL/6 background.
