Journal
GENOME
Volume 50, Issue 7, Pages 638-644Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/G07-048
Keywords
B chromosome; 45S rDNA; evolution; nucleolus
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The origin and activity of 45S rDNA located on micro B chromosomes of the daisy Brachycome dichromosomatica were analysed. The internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) of the 45S rRNA gene was sequenced for micro B, large 13, and A chromosomes of B. dichromosomatica cytodeme A2, and conserved differences were identified between sequences originating from A and both types of B chromosomes. Phylogenetic analysis did not identify a species containing an ITS2 sequence more similar to either of the B chromosome sequences than the B. dichromosomatica A chromosome sequences. Thus, an origin of the B chromosomes from A chromosomes at a time prior to the divergence of the 4 cytodemes of B. dichromosomatica is suggested. The frequent (70%) nucleolar non-association of micro B chromosomes suggests inactivity of micro B 45S rDNA.
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