Chromosome territory arrangement and homologous pairing in nuclei of Arabidopsis thaliana are predominantly random except for NOR-bearing chromosomes - PubMed (original) (raw)

Comparative Study

. 2004 Nov;113(5):258-69.

doi: 10.1007/s00412-004-0316-2. Epub 2004 Oct 9.

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Comparative Study

Chromosome territory arrangement and homologous pairing in nuclei of Arabidopsis thaliana are predominantly random except for NOR-bearing chromosomes

Ales Pecinka et al. Chromosoma. 2004 Nov.

Abstract

Differential painting of all five chromosome pairs of Arabidopsis thaliana revealed for the first time the interphase chromosome arrangement in a euploid plant. Side-by-side arrangement of heterologous chromosome territories and homologous association of chromosomes 1, 3 and 5 (on average in 35-50% of nuclei) are in accordance with the random frequency predicted by computer simulations. Only the nucleolus organizing region (NOR)-bearing chromosome 2 and 4 homologs associate more often than randomly, since NORs mostly attach to a single nucleolus. Somatic pairing of homologous approximately 100 kb segments occurs less frequently than homolog association, not significantly more often than expected at random and not simultaneously along the homologs. Thus, chromosome arrangement in Arabidopsis differs from that in Drosophila (characterized by somatic pairing of homologs), in spite of similar genome size, sequence organization and chromosome number. Nevertheless, in up to 31.5% of investigated Arabidopsis nuclei allelic sequences may share positions close enough for homologous recombination.

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