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- Title
How Next-Generation Sequencing Has Aided Our Understanding of the Sequence Composition and Origin of B Chromosomes.
- Authors
Ruban, Alevtina; Schmutzer, Thomas; Scholz, Uwe; Houben, Andreas
- Abstract
Accessory, supernumerary, or--most simply--B chromosomes, are found in many eukaryotic karyotypes. These small chromosomes do not follow the usual pattern of segregation, but rather are transmitted in a higher than expected frequency. As increasingly being demonstrated by next-generation sequencing (NGS), their structure comprises fragments of standard (A) chromosomes, although in some plant species, their sequence also includes contributions from organellar genomes. Transcriptomic analyses of various animal and plant species have revealed that, contrary to what used to be the common belief, some of the B chromosome DNA is protein-encoding. This review summarizes the progress in understanding B chromosome biology enabled by the application of next-generation sequencing technology and state-of-the-art bioinformatics. In particular, a contrast is drawn between a direct sequencing approach and a strategy based on a comparative genomics as alternative routes that can be taken towards the identification of B chromosome sequences.
- Subjects
KARYOTYPES; CHROMOSOMES; PROTEINS; BIOINFORMATICS; GENOMICS
- Publication
Genes, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 11, p294
- ISSN
2073-4425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/genes8110294