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GENOME RESEARCH
卷 10, 期 5, 页码 613-623出版社
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gr.10.5.613
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Large-scale sequencing studies in vertebrates have thus Far focused primarily on the genomes of a few model organisms. Birds al-e of interest to genomics because of their much smaller and highly streamlined genomes compared to mammals. However, large-scale genetic work has been confined almost exclusively to the chicken; we know little about general aspects of genomes in nongame birds. This study examines the organization of a genomic region containing an Mhc class II B gene in a representative of another important lineage of the avian tree, the songbirds (Passeriformes). We used a shotgun sequencing approach to determine the sequence of a 32-kb cosmid insert containing a strongly hybridizing Mhc fragment from house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus). There were a total of three genes found on the cosmid clone, about the gene density expected For the mammalian Mhc: a class II Mbe P-chain gene (Came-DABI), a serine-threonine kinase, and a zinc finger motif. Frameshift mutations in both the second and third exons of Came-DABI and the unalignability of the gene after the third exon suggest that it is a nonfunctional pseudogene. In addition, the identifiable introns of Came-DABI are more than twice as large as those of chickens. Nucleotide diversity in the peptide-binding region of Came-DABI (TI = 0.03) was much lower than polymorphic chicken and other functional Mhc genes but higher than the expected diversity for a neutral locus in birds, perhaps because of hitchhiking on a selected Mhc locus close by. The serine-threonine kinase gene is likely functional, whereas the zinc finger motif is likely nonfunctional. A paucity of long simple-sequence repeats and retroelements is consistent with emerging rules of chicken genomics, and a pictorial analysis of the genomic signature of this sequence, the first of its kind for birds, bears strong similarity to mammalian signatures, suggesting common higher-ol der structures in these homeothermic genomes. The house finch sequence is among a very few of its kind from nonmodel vertebrates and provides insight into the evolution of the avian Mhc and of avian genomes generally.
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