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. 1994 Nov;138(3):665–674. doi: 10.1093/genetics/138.3.665

Remi-RFLP Mapping in the Dictyostelium Genome

A Kuspa 1, W F Loomis 1
PMCID: PMC1206217  PMID: 7851764

Abstract

A set of 147 Dictyostelium discoideum strains was constructed by random integration of a vector containing rare restriction sites. The strains were generated by transformation using restriction enzymemediated integration (REMI) which results in the integration of linear DNA fragments into randomly distributed genomic restriction sites. Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) was generated in a single genomic site in each strain. These REMI-RFLP strains were used to confirm gene linkages previously supported by two other physical mapping techniques: yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) contig construction, and megabase-scale restriction mapping. New linkages were uncovered when two or more hybridization probes identified the same RFLP fragments. Probes for 100 genes have marked 53% of the RFLPs, representing greater than 22 Mb of the 40 Mb Dictyostelium genome. Alignment of these and other large fragments along each chromosome should lead to a complete physical map of the Dictyostelium genome.

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