Genomic Organization of Microsatellites and Like Retrotransposons: Evolutionary Implications for (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) Cytotypes

Overview

Journal Animals (Basel)

Date 2022 Aug 26

PMID 36009681

Authors

Thays Duarte de Oliveira

Natasha Avila Bertocchi

Rafael Kretschmer

Edivaldo H C de Oliveira

Marcelo de Bello Cioffi

Thomas Liehr

Thales R O de Freitas

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Abstract

The Neotropical underground rodents of the genus (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) comprise about 65 species, which harbor the most significant chromosomal variation among mammals (2n = 10 to 2n = 70). Among them, stands out with 45 different cytotypes already identified, among which, seven parental ones, named A to G, are parapatrically distributed in the coastal plains of Southern Brazil. Looking for possible causes that led to such extensive karyotype diversification, we performed chromosomal mapping of different repetitive DNAs, including microsatellites and long interspersed element-1 () retrotransposons in the seven parental cytotypes. Although microsatellites were found mainly in the centromeric and telomeric regions of the chromosomes, different patterns occur for each cytotype, thus revealing specific features. Likewise, the -like retrotransposons also showed a differential distribution for each cytotype, which may be linked to stochastic loss of in some populations. Here, microsatellite motifs (A), (C), (CA), (CAC), (CAG), (CGG), (GA), and (GAG) could be mapped to fusion of chromosomes 20/17, fission and inversion in the short arm of chromosome 2, fusion of chromosomes 23/19, and different combinations of centric and tandem fusions of chromosomes 22/24/16. These data provide evidence for a correlation between repetitive genomic content and localization of evolutionary breakpoints and highlight their direct impact in promoting chromosomal rearrangements.

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