| Autor: |
Kelly E. Miller, Sanjit S. Batra, Maura Lane, Joseph Park, Jessen V. Bredeson, John H. Malone, Owen K. Smith, Austin B Mudd, Jessica B. Lyons, Christopher Plott, Guadalupe Aguirre-Figueroa, Therese Mitros, Michael J. Ryan, Sofia Medina-Ruiz, John B. Wallingford, Robert D. Denton, Daniel S. Rokhsar, Laurent M. Sachs, Mustafa K. Khokha, Dirk Hockemeyer, Mara Laslo, Daniel R. Buchholz, Jane Grimwood, Nicolas Buisine, Jeremy Schmutz, Heidi Smith-Parker, Richard M. Harland, Kodiak C. Berkoff, Aaron F. Straight, Isabelle Philipp, Taejoon Kwon, Rebecca Heald, Marcos Gridi-Papp, James Hanken, Gwenneg Kerdivel |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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| DOI: |
10.1101/2021.10.18.464293 |
| Popis: |
Frogs are an ecologically diverse and phylogenetically ancient group of living amphibians that include important vertebrate cell and developmental model systems, notably the genus Xenopus. Here we report a high-quality reference genome sequence for the western clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis, along with draft chromosome-scale sequences of three distantly related emerging model frog species, Eleutherodactylus coqui, Engystomops pustulosus and Hymenochirus boettgeri. Frog chromosomes have remained remarkably stable since the Mesozoic Era, with limited Robertsonian (i.e., centric) translocations and end-to-end fusions found among the smaller chromosomes. Conservation of synteny includes conservation of centromere locations, marked by centromeric tandem repeats associated with Cenp-a binding, surrounded by pericentromeric LINE/L1 elements. We explored chromosome structure across frogs, using a dense meiotic linkage map for X. tropicalis and chromatin conformation capture (HiC) data for all species. Abundant satellite repeats occupy the unusually long (∼20 megabase) terminal regions of each chromosome that coincide with high rates of recombination. Both embryonic and differentiated cells show reproducible association of centromeric chromatin, and of telomeres, reflecting a Rabl configuration similar to the “bouquet” structure of meiotic cells. Our comparative analyses reveal 13 conserved ancestral anuran chromosomes from which contemporary frog genomes were constructed. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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