Chloroplast DNA recombination in interspecific hybrids of Chlamydomonas: Linkage between a nonmendelian locus for streptomycin resistance and restriction fragments coding for 16S rRNA
AUTOR(ES)
Lemieux, Claude
RESUMO
Differences in the distribution of Ava I and BstEII restriction sites in the chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) of Chlamydomonas eugametos and C. moewusii have been used to detect extensive cpDNA recombination in the hybrid progeny of these interfertile algae. In the present study, the inheritance of these restriction-site differences was tested for recombination with nonmendelian genetic markers for resistance to streptomycin and erythromycin in interspecific crosses and in hybrid backcrosses to C. moewusii. Most of the restriction-pattern markers appear linked to the antibiotic-resistance markers, thus supporting the chloroplast localization of the resistance markers. The streptomycin marker, in particular, shows perfect coordinate inheritance with an Ava I band containing one cpDNA fragment and a BstEII band containing two comigrating cpDNA fragments. Molecular hybridization experiments using DNA from the Ava I band as a probe show sequence homology between this DNA, the two comigrating BstEII fragments, and cpDNA fragments from C. reinhardtii containing the genes for 16S rRNA. The results show the feasibility of using C. eugametos-C. moewusii hybrids to identify cpDNA sequences that either contain or are closely linked to nonmendelian genetic markers.
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