First published online February 22, 2008; 10.1105/tpc.107.057596
The Plant Cell 20:249-258 (2008)
© 2008 American Society of Plant Biologists
Maize Genome Structure Variation: Interplay between Retrotransposon Polymorphisms and Genic Recombination[W]
Hugo K. Doonera,b,1 and
Limei Hea
a Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
b Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
1 Address correspondence to dooner{at}waksman.rutgers.edu.
Although maize (Zea mays) retrotransposons are recombinationally inert, the highly polymorphic structure of maize haplotypes raises questions regarding the local effect of intergenic retrotransposons on recombination. To examine this effect, we compared recombination in the same genetic interval with and without a large retrotransposon cluster. We used three different bz1 locus haplotypes, McC, B73, and W22, in the same genetic background. We analyzed recombination between the bz1 and stc1 markers in heterozygotes that differ by the presence and absence of a 26-kb intergenic retrotransposon cluster. To facilitate the genetic screen, we used Ds and Ac markers that allowed us to identify recombinants by their seed pigmentation. We sequenced 239 recombination junctions and assigned them to a single nucleotide polymorphism–delimited interval in the region. The genetic distance between the markers was twofold smaller in the presence of the retrotransposon cluster. The reduction was seen in bz1 and stc1, but no recombination occurred in the highly polymorphic intergenic region of either heterozygote. Recombination within genes shuffled flanking retrotransposon clusters, creating new chimeric haplotypes and either contracting or expanding the physical distance between markers. Our findings imply that haplotype structure will profoundly affect the correlation between genetic and physical distance for the same interval in maize.
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