Genetics Selection Evolution (Apr 2006)

A 7-bp insertion in the 3' untranslated region suggests the duplication and concerted evolution of the rabbit <it>SRY </it>gene

  • Ferrand Nuno,
  • Geraldes Armando

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-38-3-313
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 38, no. 3
pp. 313 – 320

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Abstract In this work we report the genetic polymorphism of a 7-bp insertion in the 3' untranslated region of the rabbit SRY gene. The polymorphic GAATTAA motif was found exclusively in one of the two divergent rabbit Y-chromosomal lineages, suggesting that its origin is more recent than the separation of the O. c. algirus and O. c. cuniculus Y-chromosomes. In addition, the remarkable observation of haplotypes exhibiting 0, 1 and 2 7-bp inserts in essentially all algirus populations suggests that the rabbit SRY gene is duplicated and evolving under concerted evolution.

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