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Isolation of X and Y chromosome-specific DNA markers from a liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha, by representational
M Fujisawa1, K Hayashi, T Nishio
1Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, Division of Integrated Life Science, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
Genetics
|December 1, 2001
Abstract:
The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has X and Y chromosomes in the respective female and male haploids. Here we report the successful exploitation of representational difference analyses to isolate DNA markers for the sex chromosomes. Two female-specific and six male-specific DNA fragments were genetically confirmed to originate from the X and Y chromosomes, respectively.