Sangam: A Confluence of Knowledge Streams

Genomic composition and evolution of Aedes aegypti chromosomes revealed by the analysis of physically mapped supercontigs

Show simple item record

dc.contributor Biochemistry
dc.contributor Entomology
dc.contributor Fralin Life Sciences Institute
dc.creator Timoshevskiy, Vladimir A.
dc.creator Kinney, Nicholas A.
dc.creator deBruyn, Becky S.
dc.creator Mao, Chunhong
dc.creator Tu, Zhijian Jake
dc.creator Severson, D. W.
dc.creator Sharakhov, Igor V.
dc.creator Sharakhova, Maria V.
dc.date 2017-01-05T23:43:40Z
dc.date 2017-01-05T23:43:40Z
dc.date 2014-04-14
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:55:02Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:55:02Z
dc.identifier BMC Biology. 2014 Apr 14;12(1):27
dc.identifier 1741-7007
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73980
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-12-27
dc.identifier 12
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/281894
dc.description Background An initial comparative genomic study of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae and the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti revealed striking differences in the genome assembly size and in the abundance of transposable elements between the two species. However, the chromosome arms homology between An. gambiae and Ae. aegypti, as well as the distribution of genes and repetitive elements in chromosomes of Ae. aegypti, remained largely unexplored because of the lack of a detailed physical genome map for the yellow fever mosquito. Results Using a molecular landmark-guided fluorescent in situ hybridization approach, we mapped 624-Mb of the Ae. aegypti genome to mitotic chromosomes. We used this map to analyze the distribution of genes, tandem repeats and transposable elements along the chromosomes and to explore the patterns of chromosome homology and rearrangements between Ae. aegypti and An. gambiae. The study demonstrated that the q arm of the sex-determining chromosome 1 had the lowest gene content and the highest density of minisatellites. A comparative genomic analysis with An. gambiae determined that the previously proposed whole-arm synteny is not fully preserved; a number of pericentric inversions have occurred between the two species. The sex-determining chromosome 1 had a higher rate of genome rearrangements than observed in autosomes 2 and 3 of Ae. aegypti. Conclusions The study developed a physical map of 45% of the Ae. aegypti genome and provided new insights into genomic composition and evolution of Ae. aegypti chromosomes. Our data suggest that minisatellites rather than transposable elements played a major role in rapid evolution of chromosome 1 in the Aedes lineage. The research tools and information generated by this study contribute to a more complete understanding of the genome organization and evolution in mosquitoes.
dc.description Published version
dc.format ? - ? (13) page(s)
dc.format application/pdf
dc.format application/pdf
dc.format application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
dc.format image/tiff
dc.language English
dc.publisher Biomed Central Ltd
dc.relation http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000335407000001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=930d57c9ac61a043676db62af60056c1
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights Vladimir A Timoshevskiy et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
dc.subject Biology
dc.subject Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
dc.subject BIOLOGY
dc.subject Physical mapping
dc.subject Mosquito
dc.subject Genome
dc.subject Chromosome
dc.subject YELLOW-FEVER MOSQUITO
dc.subject QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI
dc.subject DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER HETEROCHROMATIN
dc.subject MALARIA PARASITE SUSCEPTIBILITY
dc.subject ANOPHELES-GAMBIAE
dc.subject TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT
dc.subject POLYTENE CHROMOSOMES
dc.subject LINKAGE MAP
dc.subject SEQUENCE
dc.subject DIPTERA
dc.title Genomic composition and evolution of Aedes aegypti chromosomes revealed by the analysis of physically mapped supercontigs
dc.title BMC BIOLOGY
dc.type Article - Refereed
dc.type Text


Files in this item

Files Size Format View
1741-7007-12-27-S1.DOCX 95.44Kb application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document View/Open
1741-7007-12-27-S2.TIFF 889.3Kb image/tiff View/Open
Genomic composi ... ly mapped supercontigs.pdf 1.574Mb application/pdf View/Open

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search DSpace


Advanced Search

Browse