Interfamilial characterization of a region of the ZFX and ZFY genes facilitates sex determination in cetaceans and other mammals

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3275-3286

  Morin, Phillip A ^a   Nestler, Aviva ^a,c   Rubio Cisneros, Nadia T ^b   Robertson, Kelly M ^a   Mesnick, Sarah L ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^c APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

5 exonuclease assay; Cetacean; Gender; Sex determination; SNP; TaqMan; ZFX; ZFY

Indexed keywords

CETACEA; MAMMALIA;

DNA; PHOSPHODIESTERASE I;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CETACEA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CETACEA; DNA; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHODIESTERASE I; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS);

EID: 26944495390     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02651.x     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Aasen E Medrano JF ( 1990) Amplification of the ZFY and ZFX genes for sex identification in humans, cattle, sheep and goats. Biotechnology, 8 ( 12 1279 1281.
2. Aractingi S Berkane N Bertheau P et al. 1998) Fetal DNA in skin of polymorphic eruptions of pregnancy. Lancet, 352 ( 9144 1898 1901.
3. Arnason U Gullberg A ( 1996) Cytochrome b nucleotide sequences and the identification of five primary lineages of extant cetaceans. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 13 ( 2 407 417.
4. Bérubé M Palsbøll PJ ( 1996) Identification of sex in cetaceans by multiplexing with three ZFX and ZFY specific primers. Molecular Ecology, 5, 283 287.
5. Fain SR LeMay JP ( 1995) Gender identification of humans and mammalian wildlife species from PCR amplified sex linked genes. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Science (February 13-18, 1995): 34.
6. Finch JL Hope RM van Daal A ( 1996) Human sex determination using multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Science Justice, 36 ( 2 93 95.
7. Gemmell NJ Akiyama S ( 1996) An efficient method for the extraction of DNA from vertebrate tissues. Trends in Genetics, 12 ( 9 338 339.
8. Holland PM Abramson RD Watson R Gelfand DH ( 1991) Detection of specific polymerase chain reaction product by utilizing the 5′ to 3′ exonuclease activity of Thermus aquaticus DNA polymerase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 88, 7276 7280.
9. Jefferson TA Myrick AC Jr. Chivers SJ ( 1994) Small Cetacean Dissection and Sampling: A Field Guide, US Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memoranda NMFS-SWFSC-198, La Jolla, California.
10. Jegalian K Page DC ( 1998) A proposed path by which genes common to mammalian X and Y chromosomes evolve to become X inactivated. Nature, 394 ( 6695 776 780.
11. Kim HS Takenaka O ( 2000) Evolution of the X-linked zinc finger gene and the Y-linked zinc finger gene in primates. Molecular Cells, 10 ( 5 512 518.
12. Liou JD Pao CC Hor JJ Kao SM ( 1993) Fetal cells in the maternal circulation during first trimester in pregnancies. Human Genetics, 92 ( 3 309 311.
13. Livak K Flood SJA Marmaro J Giusti W Deetz K ( 1995a) Oligonucleotides with fluorescent dyes at opposite ends provide a quenched probe system useful for detecting PCR product and nucleic acid hybridization. PCR Methods and Applications, 4, 357 362.
14. Livak K Marmaro J Flood S ( 1995b) Guidelines for Designing TaqMan™ Fluorogenic Probes for 5′ Nuclease Assay. PE Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California.
15. Lo YM Leung TN Tein MS et al. 1999) Quantitative abnormalities of fetal DNA in maternal serum in preeclampsia. Clinical Chemistry, 45 ( 2 184 188.
16. Morin PA Saiz R Monjazeb A ( 1999) High throughput single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping by the 5′ exonuclease assay. BioTechniques, 27, 538 552.
17. Morin PA Chambers KE Boesch C Vigilant L ( 2001) Quantitative PCR analysis of DNA from noninvasive samples for accurate microsatellite genotyping of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Molecular Ecology, 10, 1835 1844.
18. Morin PA Luikart G Wayne RK, SNP Workshop Group ( 2004) SNPs in ecology, evolution and conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 19 ( 4 208 216.
19. Nakahori Y Takenaka O Nakagome Y ( 1991) A human X-Y homologous region encodes 'amelogenin'. Genomics, 9 ( 2 264 269.
20. Page DC Mosher R Simpson EM et al. 1987) The sex-determining region of the human Y chromosome encodes a finger protein. Cell, 51 ( 6 1091 1104.
21. Palsbøll PJ Vader A Bakke I El-Gewely MR ( 1992) Determination of gender in cetaceans by the polymerase chain reaction. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 70, 2166 2170.
22. Pecon Slattery J Sanner-Wachter L O'Brien SJ ( 2000) Novel gene conversion between X-Y homologues located in the nonrecombining region of the Y chromosome in Felidae (Mammalia). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 97 ( 10 5307 5312.
23. Poloumienko A ( 2004) Cloning and comparative analysis of the bovine, porcine, and equine sex chromosome genes ZFX and ZFY. Genome, 47 ( 1 74 83.
24. Rastogi T Brown MW McLeod BA et al. 2004) Genetic analysis of 16th-century whale bones prompts a revision of the impact of Basque whaling on right and bowhead whales in the western North Atlantic. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 82, 1647 1654.
25. Reynolds R Varlaro J ( 1996) Gender determination of forensic samples using PCR amplification of ZFX/ZFY gene sequences. Journal of Forensic Science, 41 ( 2 279 286.
26. Rice DW ( 1998) Marine mammals of the world: systematics and distribution. Special Publication No. 4 of the Society for Marine Mammalogy, 4, 51 126.
27. Richard KR Mccarrey SW Wright JM ( 1994) DNA-sequence from the Sry gene of the sperm whale (Physeter Macrocephalus) for use in molecular sexing. Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne de Zoologie, 72 ( 5 873 877.
28. Rosel PE ( 2003) PCR based sex determination in Odontocete cetaceans. Conservation Genetics, 4 ( 5 647 649.
29. Rosenbaum HC Egan MG Clapham PJ Brownell RL Jr. Desalle R ( 1997) An effective method for isolating DNA from historical specimens of baleen. Molecular Ecology, 6 ( 7 677 681.
30. Sambrook J Fritsch EF Maniatis T ( 1989) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, 2nd edn. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
31. Schneider-Gadicke A Beer-Romero P Brown LG Nussbaum R Page DC ( 1989) ZFX has a gene structure similar to ZFY, the putative human sex determinant, and escapes X inactivation. Cell, 57 ( 7 1247 1258.
32. Smith S Vigilant L Morin PA ( 2002) The effects of sequence length and oligonucleotide mismatches on 5′ exonuclease assay efficiency. Nucleic Acids Research, 30 ( 20 e111.
33. Swofford DL ( 1999) paup. Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (and Other Methods). Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
34. Taberlet P Mattock H Dubois-Paganon C Bouvet J ( 1993) Sexing free-ranging brown bears Ursus arctos using hairs found in the field. Molecular Ecology, 2 ( 6 399 403.
35. Takahashi M Masuda R Uno H et al. 1998) Sexing of carcass remains of the Sika deer (Cervus nippon) using PCR amplification of the Sry gene. Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, 60 ( 6 713 716.
36. Wandeler P Morin PA Smith S Pettifor RA Funk SM ( 2003) Patterns of nuclear DNA degeneration over time - a case study in historic teeth samples. Molecular Ecology, 12, 1087 1093.
37. Wilson PJ White BN ( 1998) Sex identification of elk (Cervus elaphus canadensis), moose (Alces alces), and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) using the polymerase chain reaction. Journal of Forensic Science, 43 ( 3 477 482.
38. Winnepenninckx B Backeljau T De Wachter R ( 1993) Extraction of high molecular weight DNA from molluscs. Trends in Genetics, 9 ( 12 407.