- 著者
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Matsuda Yoichi
Nishida-Umehara Chizuko
Tarui Hiroshi
Kuroiwa Asato
Yamada Kazuhiko
Isobe Taku
Ando Junko
Fujiwara Atushi
Hirao Yukako
Nishimura Osamu
Ishijima Junko
Hayashi Akiko
Saito Toshiyuki
Murakami Takahiro
Murakami Yasunori
Kuratani Shigeru
Agata Kiyokazu
- 出版者
- Springer Netherlands
- 雑誌
- Chromosome Research (ISSN:09673849)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.13, no.6, pp.601-615, 2005-08
- 被引用文献数
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97
The karyotypes of birds, turtles and snakes are characterized by two distinct chromosomal components, macrochromosomes and microchromosomes. This close karyological relationship between birds and reptiles has long been a topic of speculation among cytogeneticists and evolutionary biologists; however, there is scarcely any evidence for orthology at the molecular level. To define the conserved chromosome synteny among humans, chickens and reptiles and the process of genome evolution in the amniotes, we constructed comparative cytogenetic maps of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) and the Japanese four-striped rat snake (Elaphe quadrivirgata) using cDNA clones of reptile functional genes. Homology between the turtle and chicken chromosomes is highly conserved, with the six largest chromosomes being almost equivalent to each other. On the other hand, homology to chicken chromosomes is lower in the snake than in the turtle. Turtle chromosome 6q and snake chromosome 2p represent conserved synteny with the chicken Z chromosome. These results suggest that the avian and turtle genomes have been well conserved during the evolution of the Arcosauria. The avian and snake sex Z chromosomes were derived from different autosomes in a common ancestor, indicating that the causative genes of sex determination may be different between birds and snakes.