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Unique genomic configuration revealed by microsatellite DNA in polyploid dogroses, Rosa sect. Caninae
Author(s) -
NYBOM H.,
ESSELINK G. D.,
WERLEMARK G.,
LEUS L.,
VOSMAN B.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of evolutionary biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.289
H-Index - 128
eISSN - 1420-9101
pISSN - 1010-061X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.01010.x
Subject(s) - biology , apomixis , ploidy , bivalent (engine) , polyploid , microsatellite , genetics , hybrid , parthenogenesis , allele , non mendelian inheritance , botany , gene , embryo , mitochondrial dna , chemistry , organic chemistry , metal
An allopolyploid complex with high genomic integrity has been studied. Dogroses transmit only seven chromosomes (from seven bivalents) through the pollen, whereas 21, 28 or 35 chromosomes (from seven bivalents and 14, 21 or 28 univalents) come from the egg cells. Seedlings derived from two interspecific crosses were analysed with flow cytometry and molecular markers to determine ploidy level, mode of reproduction and genomic constitution. Evidence was obtained for the formation of unreduced male and female gametes, which can take part in fertilization (producing seedlings with higher ploidy than the parental plants) or in apomictic reproduction. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and microsatellite analyses indicated that three seedlings (5%) were derived through apomixis, whereas the other 49 were hybrids. Bivalent formation appears to involve chromosomes that consistently share the same microsatellite alleles. Allele‐sharing between the maternally transmitted and highly conserved univalent‐forming chromosomes reflected the taxonomic distance between different genotypes. The frequently recombining bivalent‐forming chromosomes were taxonomically less informative.