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Genetics, Vol 126, 207-217, Copyright © 1990
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DNA Sequence Variation Within Maize and Melon: Observations From Polymerase Chain Reaction Amplification and Direct Sequencing
D. M. Shattuck-Eidens, R. N. Bell, S. L. Neuhausen and T. Helentjaris
Native Plants Incorporated, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
While compiling genetic linkage maps in several plant species based upon restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs), it was noted that the incidence of polymorphism differs among species. The basis of this disparity was investigated in this study by examining the nucleotide sequence at homologous loci among distinct cultivars within two species which exhibit considerably different levels of RFLPs. Using the polymerase chain reaction, homologous regions from different cultivars were first amplified and the nucleotide sequence of the products were determined. Four genomic regions of seven maize cultivars and three genomic regions of eight melon cultivars were examined to compare the respective levels of sequence variation between the two species. Levels of variation for both base substitutions and insertions/deletions varied widely among the maize sequences and between maize and melon for base substitutions. Estimates of theta (a measure of polymorphism) ranged from 0 to 0.002 in melon and from 0.006 to 0.040 for base substitutions and from 0.002 to 0.023 for insertions/deletions in maize. Critical value tests and chi-squared tests suggested that in maize the underlying processes generating and maintaining neutral mutations differ among the regions. The results not only suggest that several mechanisms are necessary to explain the variation seen in these two species, but also point to some basic dissimilarities in the organization and maintenance of the genomes of different plant species.
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