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DNA fingerprinting in birds | | T Burke
; M W Bruford
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14 May 1987 | | Journal: | Nature, 327 (6118), 149-52 | | Abstract: | Several regions of the human genome are highly variable in populations because the number of repeats in these regions of a short ’minisatellite’ sequence varies at high frequency. Different minisatellites have a core sequence in common, however, and probes made up of tandem repeats of this core sequence detect many highly variable DNA fragments in several species including humans, cats, dogs and mice. The hypervariable sequences detected in this way are dispersed in the genome and their variability means that they can be used as a DNA ’fingerprint’, providing a novel method for the identification of individuals, confirmation of biological relationships and human genetic analysis. We show here that human minisatellite-derived probes also detect highly variable regions in bird DNAs. Segregation analysis in a house sparrow family confirms that these regions comprise many mostly heterozygous dispersed loci and we conclude that house sparrow DNA fingerprints are analogous to those of humans. Fingerprint analysis identified one nestling, with fingerprint bands not present in the parent pair’s fingerprints, which we conclude resulted from an extrapair copulation. Extrabond copulations have been described in many wild bird species, but their success and hence adaptive significance have rarely been quantifiable. DNA fingerprinting will be of great significance to studies of the sociobiology, demography and ecology of wild birds. | | Source: | PubMed, pmid3574475 doi: 10.1038/327149a0 | | Services: | Forum | Review | Favorites | |
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