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JOURNAL OF HEREDITY
Volume 91, Issue 5, Pages 412-415Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/91.5.412
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A novel satellite DNA sequence of Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) was isolated from genomic DNA digested with restriction endonuclease, Bg/II. Sequence analysis of three different-size clones revealed the presence of a tandem array of a GC-rich 41 bp repeated element. This sequence was localized by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) primarily to microchromosomes of Japanese quail (2n = 78); approximately 50 of the 66 microchromosomes showed positive signals, although hybridization signals were also detected on chromosomes 4 and W. This satellite DNA did not cross-hybridize with genomic DNA of chicken (Gallus gallus) and Chinese painted quail (Excalfactoria chinensis) under moderately stringent conditions, suggesting that this class of repetitive DNA sequences was species specific and fairly divergent in Galliformes species.
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