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Molecular insights into the non-recombining nature of the spinach male-determining region

Overview of attention for article published in Molecular Genetics and Genomics, December 2017
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Title
Molecular insights into the non-recombining nature of the spinach male-determining region
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Molecular Genetics and Genomics, December 2017
DOI 10.1007/s00438-017-1405-2
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Tomohiro Kudoh, Mitsuhiko Takahashi, Takayuki Osabe, Atsushi Toyoda, Hideki Hirakawa, Yutaka Suzuki, Nobuko Ohmido, Yasuyuki Onodera

Abstract

Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) is a dioecious plant with male heterogametic sex determination and homomorphic sex chromosomes (XY). The dioecism is utilized for producing commercial hybrid seeds, and hence understanding the molecular-genetic basis of the species' sex determining locus is an important issue for spinach breeding. In this study, seven dominant DNA markers were shown to completely co-segregate with the male-determining gene in segregating spinach populations comprising > 1500 plants. In addition, these seven dominant DNA markers were completely associated with the male-determining gene in over 100 spinach germplasm accessions and cultivars. These observations suggest that, in spinach, a Y-chromosomal region around the male-determining locus does not (or almost not) recombine with a counterpart region on the X chromosome. Using five of the seven DNA markers, five bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clone contigs with a total length of approximately 690 kbp were constructed. Full sequencing of six representative BAC clones (total insert length 504 kbp) from the five contigs and a transcriptome analysis by RNA-seq revealed that the Y-chromosomal region around the male-determining locus contains large amounts of repetitive elements, suggesting that the region might be poor in gene content. Most of the repeats found in this region are novel Ty1-copia-like and its derivative elements that accumulate predominantly in heterochromatic regions. Our findings may provide valuable insight into spinach genome structure and clues for future research into the evolution of the sex determining locus.

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Unknown 26 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 31%
Researcher 5 19%
Student > Master 3 12%
Student > Bachelor 2 8%
Professor 1 4%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 4 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 50%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 19%
Computer Science 1 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 4%
Neuroscience 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 4 15%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 December 2017.
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#14,393,794
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#7
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