ArticleMolecular biology reports2022
Diversity of the repetitive DNA fraction in Cestrum, the genus with the largest genomes within Solanaceae.
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backgroundCestrum species present large genomes (2 C = ~ 24 pg), a high occurrence of B chromosomes and great diversity in heterochromatin bands. Despite this diversity, karyotypes maintain the chromosome number 2n = 16 (except when they present B chromosomes), and a relative similarity in chromosome morphology and symmetry. To deepen our knowledge of the Cestrum genome composition, low-coverage sequencing data of C. strigilatum and C. elegans were compared, including cytogenomic analyses of seven species. METHODS AND
resultsBioinformatics analyses showed retrotransposons comprising more than 70% of the repetitive fraction, followed by DNA transposons (~ 17%), but FISH assays using retrotransposon probes revealed inconspicuous and scattered signals. The four satellite DNA families here analyzed represented approximately 2.48% of the C. strigilatum dataset, and these sequences were used as probes in FISH assays. Hybridization signals were colocalized with all AT- and GC-rich sequences associated with heterochromatin, including AT-rich Cold-Sensitive Regions (CSRs). Although satellite probes hybridized in almost all tested species, a satDNA family named CsSat49 was highlighted because it predominates in centromeric regions.
conclusionsData suggest that the satDNA fraction is conserved in the genus, although there is variation in the number of FISH signals between karyotypes. Except to the absence of FISH signals with probes CsSat1 and CsSat72 in two species, the other satellites occurred in species of different phylogenetic clades. Some satDNA sequences have been detected in the B chromosomes, indicating that they are rich in preexisting sequences in the chromosomes of the A complement. This comparative study provides an important advance in the knowledge on genome organization and heterochromatin composition in Cestrum, especially on the distribution of satellite fractions between species and their importance for the B chromosome composition.
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