Article
Evolution of centromeric satellite DNA and its use in phylogenetic studies of the Sparidae family (Pisces, Perciformes).
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jul 1999
Garrido-Ramos M A, de la Herrán R, Jamilena M, Lozano R, Ruiz Rejón C, Ruiz Rejón M
Abstract excerpt
In this paper, we use the EcoRI centromeric satellite DNA family conserved in Sparidae as a taxonomic and a phylogenetic marker. The analyses of 56 monomeric units (187 bp in size) obtained by means of cloning and PCR from 10 sparid species indicate that this repetitive DNA evolves by concerted evolution. Different phylogenetic inference methods, such as neighbor-joining and UPGMA, group the 56 repeats by...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Centromere
- Cloning, Molecular
- Consensus Sequence
- DNA, Satellite
- Deoxyribonuclease EcoRI
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Variation
- Genome
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Perciformes
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Alignment