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Chromosome-Specific Painting in Cucumis Species Using Bulked Oligonucleotides.

Yonghua Han, Tao Zhang, Paradee Thammapichai, Yiqun Weng, Jiming Jiang

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Article in Genetics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 123 papers.

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123 citing papers in PubMed, 229 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Yonghua HanDepartment of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 The Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Medicinal Plants of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China.
Tao ZhangDepartment of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706.
Paradee ThammapichaiDepartment of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706.
Yiqun WengDepartment of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Vegetable Crops Research Unit, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 weng4@wisc.edu jjiang1@wisc.edu.
Jiming JiangDepartment of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 weng4@wisc.edu jjiang1@wisc.edu.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chromosome-specific painting is a powerful technique in molecular cytogenetic and genome research. We developed an oligonucleotide (oligo)-based chromosome painting technique in cucumber (Cucumis sativus) that will be applicable in any plant species with a sequenced genome. Oligos specific to a single chromosome of cucumber were identified using a newly developed bioinformatic pipeline and then massively synthesized de novo in parallel. The synthesized oligos were amplified and labeled with biotin or digoxigenin for use in fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). We developed three different probes with each containing 23,000-27,000 oligos. These probes spanned 8.3-17 Mb of DNA on targeted cucumber chromosomes and had the densities of 1.5-3.2 oligos per kilobases. These probes produced FISH signals on a single cucumber chromosome and were used to paint homeologous chromosomes in other Cucumis species diverged from cucumber for up to 12 million years. The bulked oligo probes allowed us to track a single chromosome in early stages during meiosis. We were able to precisely map the pairing between cucumber chromosome 7 and chromosome 1 of Cucumis hystrix in a F1 hybrid. These two homeologous chromosomes paired in 71% of prophase I cells but only 25% of metaphase I cells, which may provide an explanation of the higher recombination rates compared to the chiasma frequencies between homeologous chromosomes reported in plant hybrids.

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Chromosomes, PlantIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceOligonucleotide ProbesChromosome PaintingCucumisSpecies SpecificityOligonucleotide Probeschromosome paintingchromosome pairingFISHoligonucleotides

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PMID25971668
PMCPMC4512542
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