TY - JOUR
T1 - Analyses of random BAC clone sequences of Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria japonica
AU - Tamura, Miho
AU - Hisataka, Yosuke
AU - Moritsuka, Etsuko
AU - Watanabe, Atsushi
AU - Uchiyama, Kentaro
AU - Futamura, Norihiro
AU - Shinohara, Kenji
AU - Tsumura, Yoshihiko
AU - Tachida, Hidenori
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Alfred E. Szmidt, Junko Kusumi, and two anonymous referees for constructive comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. This study was partially supported by the Program for Promotion of Basic and Applied Researches for Innovations in Bio-oriented Industry and by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (nos. 22370083 and 26291082).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Conifers have larger genomes than most angiosperms, long generation times, and undergone relatively few chromosome duplications during their evolution. Thus, conifers are interesting targets for molecular evolutionary studies. Despite this, there have been few studies regarding their genome structure, and these studies are mostly limited to the Pinaceae. Our target species, Cryptomeria japonica, belongs to the Cupressaceae family, which is phylogenetically separated from the Pinaceae family by a few hundred million years, and is the most important timber tree in Japan, making investigation of its genome structure both interesting and worthwhile. We analyzed the sequences of eight random bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones from C. japonica and compared them with sequences of comparable size from eight other model plants, including Arabidopsis thaliana and Pinus taeda. From this analysis, we identified several features of the C. japonica genome. First, the genome of C. japonica has many divergent repetitive sequences, similar to those of Physcomitrella patens and P. taeda. Additionally, some C. japonica transposable elements (TEs) seem to have been active until recently, and some might be unidentified novel TEs. We also found a putative protein-coding gene with a very long intron (approximately 70 kb). The three Pinaceae species whose genome sequences have been determined share these features, despite the few hundred million years of independent evolution separating the Pinaceae species from C. japonica.
AB - Conifers have larger genomes than most angiosperms, long generation times, and undergone relatively few chromosome duplications during their evolution. Thus, conifers are interesting targets for molecular evolutionary studies. Despite this, there have been few studies regarding their genome structure, and these studies are mostly limited to the Pinaceae. Our target species, Cryptomeria japonica, belongs to the Cupressaceae family, which is phylogenetically separated from the Pinaceae family by a few hundred million years, and is the most important timber tree in Japan, making investigation of its genome structure both interesting and worthwhile. We analyzed the sequences of eight random bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones from C. japonica and compared them with sequences of comparable size from eight other model plants, including Arabidopsis thaliana and Pinus taeda. From this analysis, we identified several features of the C. japonica genome. First, the genome of C. japonica has many divergent repetitive sequences, similar to those of Physcomitrella patens and P. taeda. Additionally, some C. japonica transposable elements (TEs) seem to have been active until recently, and some might be unidentified novel TEs. We also found a putative protein-coding gene with a very long intron (approximately 70 kb). The three Pinaceae species whose genome sequences have been determined share these features, despite the few hundred million years of independent evolution separating the Pinaceae species from C. japonica.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11295-015-0859-9
DO - 10.1007/s11295-015-0859-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84946182515
VL - 11
JO - Tree Genetics and Genomes
JF - Tree Genetics and Genomes
SN - 1614-2942
IS - 3
ER -