A fine physical map of the rice chromosome 4

As part of an international effort to completely sequence the rice genome, we have produced a fine bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-based physical map of the Oryza sativa japonica Nipponbare chromosome 4 through an integration of 114 sequenced BAC clones from a taxonomically related subspecies O. sativa indica Guangluai 4 and 182 RFLP and 407 expressed sequence tag (EST) markers with the fingerprinted data of the Nipponbare genome. The map consists of 11 contigs with a total length of 34.5 Mb covering 94% of the estimated chromosome size (36.8 Mb). BAC clones corresponding to telomeres, as well as to the centromere position, were determined by BAC-pachytene chromosome fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). This gave rise to an estimated length ratio of 5.13 for the long arm and 2.9 for the short arm (on the basis of the physical map), which indicates that the short arm is a highly condensed one. The FISH analysis and physical mapping also showed that the short arm and the pericentromeric region of the long arm are rich in heterochromatin, which occupied 45% of the chromosome, indicating that this chromosome is likely very difficult to sequence. To our knowledge, this map provides the first example of a rapid and reliable physical mapping on the basis of the integration of the data from two taxonomically related subspecies.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2002

Erschienen:

2002

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Genome research - 12(2002), 5 vom: 23. Mai, Seite 817-23

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhao, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Zhukuan [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Mingsheng [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Shengyue [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Yucheng [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Yesheng [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Zhehua [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Shuliang [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Jingjie [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Mu, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Ying, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Hao, Pei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Yiqi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Lei S [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yilei [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Zhen [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Danlin [VerfasserIn]
Weng, Qijun [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Tingting [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xiaohui [VerfasserIn]
Jia, Peixin [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Tongguo [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Yongrui [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yujun [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Li, Can [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Rong [VerfasserIn]
Lei, Haiyan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Tao [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Mei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Runquan [VerfasserIn]
Guan, Jianping [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Gang [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Minghong [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Guofan [VerfasserIn]
Xue, Yongbiao [VerfasserIn]
Wing, Rod [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Jiming [VerfasserIn]
Han, Bin [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

DNA, Plant
Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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Date Completed 05.06.2002

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM118740970