Development and characterization of microsatellite markers in Abies firma and interspecific amplification in other Japanese Abies species

Abies firma is a dominant coniferous tree species endemic to Japan. We isolated eight microsatellite loci from needles of this tree species and tested their polymorphism among 26 A. firma individuals. Six of them showed polymorphism, with two to 16 alleles per locus. Their expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.075 to 0.922. Moreover, interspecific amplification among Abies sachalinensis, Abies mariesii and Abies veitchii was successful in majority of the isolated loci, suggesting that these loci may be useful for characterization of other fir species.     

小鼠α1,2岩藻糖基转移酶基因的克隆及表达

本文报告小鼠GDP岩藻糖:β半乳糖苷α1,2-岩藻糖基转移酶(α1,2-fucosyltansferase,α1,2- FT)基因的克隆,并进行功能鉴定。利用RT-PCR方法克隆小鼠α1,2-岩藻糖基转移酶基因编码区 MFUT-Ⅱ,测序后将其插入表达载体pcDNA3．1的多克隆位点,构建表达载体pcDNA3．1-MFUT-Ⅱ; 采用磷酸钙法将其转染于COS-7细胞进行表达,通过对底物特异性比较研究酶的性质;应用 Northern印迹杂交法研究基因在小鼠组织中的表达情况;应用southern印迹杂交法分析基因存在状态。结果证实MFUT-Ⅱ为小鼠α1,2-岩藻糖基转移酶基因家族的新成员,含有一个完整的开放读码框,可编码347个氨基酸．其估计分子质量为39 kDa,和小鼠H及Secl基因具有序列同源性,分别与人类Se基因(79．0％)、大鼠Rat FTB(89％)基因、兔Rabbit FT-Ⅲ基因(77％)具有较高的序列同源性。用MFUT-Ⅱ基因转染的COS-7细胞具有α1,2-FT活性,MFUT-Ⅱ可在多种组织中产生 3．5kb大小的mRNA转录产物。基因Southern印迹杂交分析结果显示:基因MFUT-Ⅱ仅为一个拷贝。这些结果证明MFUT-Ⅱ为小鼠的Se基因。     

Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers in Ijima's leaf warbler,Phylloscopus ijimae (Aves: Sylviidae)

Microsatellite markers were isolated from Ijima's leaf warbler, Phylloscopus ijimae. From an enriched genomic library and using the fast isolation by AFLP of sequences containing repeats (FIASCO) method, 10 polymorphic loci were obtained. Four to 12 alleles were identified in an analysis of 23 Ijima's leaf warblers, with the degree of heterozygosity ranging from 0.35 to 0.87. The markers were tested in four species of Phylloscopus and two other non‐Phylloscopus species of Sylviidae. Some loci were successfully amplified and showed polymorphism in Phylloscopus species, whereas amplification in the non‐Phylloscopus species was less successful.     

Molecular phylogenetics of the juno irises,Iris subgenus Scorpiris (Iridaceae), based on six plastid markers

Relationships among the roughly 55 species of Iris subgenus Scorpiris have been studied. A matrix of six plastid DNA regions (matK, rpl14‐rps8 spacer, infA‐rpl36 spacer, trnE‐trnT spacer, trnL intron and trnL‐F spacer) was produced from 57 accessions (52 taxa) and analysed with both parsimony and Bayesian methods. Five major clades are identified, of which four have strong geographical correlations, whereas the fifth corresponds to Iris section Physocaulon. In our results, several species are placed with species not previously considered to be related, although, in some cases, there are morphological characters that suggest that these newly indicated relationships are reasonable. For some of the other oddly grouped species, we can only assume that remarkable parallelisms in morphology have occurred or hybridization is involved. Presently, with plastid DNA as our only comprehensive data resource, we are not able to evaluate more thoroughly these more puzzling associations of species. © 2011 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2011, 167 , 281–300.