Genetic Relatedness and Variability in Inbred and Wild Populations of the Solitary Ascidian Ciona intestinalis Revealed by Arbitrarily Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction (original) (raw)

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As the first step in the establishment of inbred Ciona intestinalis strains, the genetic backgrounds of several local populations were evaluated on the basis of comparing 313 random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) loci. Cluster analyses of individuals indicated that this species has local genetic characteristics, although various genetic distances among the populations were relatively low. The bulked RAPD analyses revealed that populations from Torihama and from Onagawa were the most distantly related among the 7 populations examined, suggesting that these two populations are the best candidates for outbreeding. Successive inbreeding in the laboratory was achieved using the Onagawa population. Although the genetic similarity of the F4 progeny became distinctly higher than that of natural populations, F5 progeny did not survive, presumably owing to homozygous lethal alleles.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan, , , , , , JP
    Shungo Kano, Shota Chiba & Noriyuki Satoh

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Received October 15, 1999; accepted July 18, 2000.

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Kano, S., Chiba, S. & Satoh, N. Genetic Relatedness and Variability in Inbred and Wild Populations of the Solitary Ascidian Ciona intestinalis Revealed by Arbitrarily Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction.Mar. Biotechnol. 3, 58–67 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s101260000048

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