Comparative Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization Mapping of a 431-kb Arabidopsis thaliana Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Contig Reveals the Role of Chromosomal Duplications in the Expansion of the Brassica rapa Genome

Corresponding author: Jiming Jiang, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, 1575 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706., jjiang1{at}facstaff.wisc.edu (E-mail)

Communicating editor: J. A. BIRCHLER

Comparative genome studies are important contributors to our understanding of genome evolution. Most comparative genome studies in plants have been based on genetic mapping of homologous DNA loci in different genomes. Large-scale comparative physical mapping has been hindered by the lack of efficient and affordable techniques. We report here the adaptation of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) techniques for comparative physical mapping between Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica rapa. A set of six bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) representing a 431-kb contiguous region of chromosome 2 of A. thaliana was mapped on both chromosomes and DNA fibers of B. rapa. This DNA fragment has a single location in the A. thaliana genome, but hybridized to four to six B. rapa chromosomes, indicating multiple duplications in the B. rapa genome. The sizes of the fiber-FISH signals from the same BACs were not longer in B. rapa than those in A. thaliana, suggesting that this genomic region is duplicated but not expanded in the B. rapa genome. The comparative fiber-FISH mapping results support that chromosomal duplications, rather than regional expansion due to accumulation of repetitive sequences in the intergenic regions, played the major role in the evolution of the B. rapa genome.

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