Differentiating sex chromosomes of the dioecious Spinacia oleracea L. (spinach) by FISH of 45S rDNA

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 175-177

  Lan, T ^a   Zhang, S ^a   Liu, B ^a   Li, X ^a   Chen, R ^a   Song, W ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 45S; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 45S; SATELLITE DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCATION; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINACH; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 33745824288     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093335     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Blackman RL, Spence JM: Ribosomal DNA is frequently concentrated on only one X chromosome in permanently apomictic aphids, but this does not inhibit male determination. Chromosome Res 4:314-320 (1996).
2. Chen RY, Song WQ, Li XL, An ZP: A new method of plant mitosis chromosome spread. Acta Botanica Sinica 21:297-298 (1979).
3. Fujisawa M, Nakayama S, Nishio T, Fujishita M, Hayashi K, Ishizaki K, Kajikawa M, Yamato KT, Fukuzawa H, Ohyama K: Evolution of ribosomal DNA unit on the X chromosome independent of autosomal units in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. Chromosome Res 11:695-703 (2003).
4. Heslop-Harrison JS: Comparative genome organization in plants: from sequence and markers to chromatin and chromosomes. Plant Cell 12:617-636 (2000).
5. Jegalian K, Lahn BT: Why the Y is so weird. Sci Am 284:56-61 (2001).
6. Juan C, Pons J, Petitpierre E: Localization of tandemly repeated DNA sequences in beetle chromosomes by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Chromosome Res 1:167-174 (1993).
7. López-León MD, Neves N, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS, Hewitt GM, Camacho JP: Possible origin of a B chromosome deduced from its DNA composition using double FISH technique. Chromosome Res 2:87-92 (1994).
8. Nakayama S, Fujishita M, Sone T, Ohyama K: Additional locus of rDNA sequence specific to the X chromosome of the liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha. Chromosome Res 9:469-473 (2001).
9. Pellegrini M, Manning J, Davidson N: Sequence arrangement of the rDNA of Drosophila melanogaster. Cell 10:213-214 (1977).
10. Qi ZX, Zeng H, Li XL, Chen CB, Song WQ, Chen RY: The molecular characterization of maize B chromosome specific AFLPs. Cell Res 12:63-68 (2002).
11. Vyskot B, Hobza R: Gender in plants: sex chromosomes are emerging from the fog. Trends Genet 20:432-438 (2004).
12. Willhoeft U: Fluorescence in situ hybridization of ribosomal DNA to mitotic chromosome of tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae: Glossina). Chromosome Res 5:262-267 (1997).