Loss of introns in the pollen-specific actin gene subfamily members of potato and tomato

被引：15

作者：

Drouin, G

deSa, MM

机构：

[1] Biology Department, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont. K1N 6N5

[2] Biotechnology Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3

来源：

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION | 1997年 / 45卷 / 05期

关键词：

intron-loss events; gene conversion; reverse-transcribed cDNA; actin; pollen-specific; potato; tomato; tobacco;

D O I：

10.1007/PL00006255

中图分类号：

Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];

学科分类号：

071010 ; 081704 ;

摘要：

Most angiosperm actin genes, including the pollen-specific tobacco actin gene Tac25, contain three introns at conserved locations within their protein coding region. We have isolated one tomato and two potato actin genes that are related to this pollen-specific tobacco actin gene and which have lost one or two introns. The loss of these introns was likely the result of at least two gene conversion events with cDNAs derived from transcripts of pollen-specific genes.

引用

页码：509 / 513

页数：5

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