Potential Role of Transposable Elements in the Rapid Reorganization of the Fusarium oxysporum Genome |
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Authors: | Jean-Michel Davi re, Thierry Langin,Marie-Jos e Daboussi |
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Affiliation: | Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, UMR 8621, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, 91405, France. |
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Abstract: | The activity of several families of transposable elements (TEs) in the genome of Fusarium oxysporum represents a potential source of karyotypic instability. We investigated transposon-mediated chromosome rearrangements by analyzing the karyotypes of a set of strains in which transposition events had occurred. We uncovered exceptional electrophoretic karyotype (EK) variability, in both number and size of chromosomal bands. We showed that EK differences result from chromosomal translocations, large deletions, and even more complex rearrangements. We also revealed many duplicated chromosomal regions. By following transposition of two elements and analyzing the distribution of different families of TEs on whole chromosomes, we find (i) no evidence of chromosomal breakages induced by transposition, (ii) a clustering of TEs in some regions, and (iii) a correlation between the high level of chromosomal polymorphism and the concentration of TEs. These results suggest that chromosome length polymorphisms likely result from ectopic recombination between TEs that can serve as substrates for these changes. |
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Keywords: | Fusarium oxysporum electrophoretic karyotype chromosomal rearrangements duplication transposable elements |
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