Phylogenetic distribution in the genus Mus of t-complex-specific DNA and protein markers: inferences on the origin of t-haplotypes |
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Authors: | Delarbre C; Kashi Y; Boursot P; Beckmann JS; Kourilsky P; Bonhomme F; Gachelin G |
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Institution: | Unite de Biologie Moleculaire du Gene, CNRS Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. |
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Abstract: | We have examined the phylogenetic distribution of two t-specific markers
among representatives of various taxa belonging to the genus Mus. The
centromeric TCP-1a marker (a testicular protein variant specific for all
t-haplotypes so far studied) has also been apparently detected in several
non-t representatives of the Mus IVA, Mus IVB, and probably M. cervicolor
species. By contrast, a t-specific restriction- fragment-length
polymorphism allele (RFLP) of the telomeric alpha- globin pseudogene DNA
marker alpha-psi-4 was found only in animals belonging to the M.
musculus-complex species either bearing genuine t- haplotypes or, like the
M. m. bactrianus specimen studied here, likely to do so. This t-specific
alpha-psi-4 RFLP allele was found to be as divergent from the RFLP alleles
of the latter, non-t, taxonomical groups as it is from Mus 4A, Mus 4B, or
M. spretus ones. These results suggest the presence of t-haplotypes and of
t-specific markers in populations other than those belonging to the M. m.
domesticus and M. m. musculus subspecies, implying a possible origin for
t-haplotypes prior to the radiation of the most recent offshoot of the Mus
genus (i.e., the spretus/domesticus divergence), some 1-3 Myr ago.
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