Abstract
A cloned 340-bp DNA fragment excised by EcoRI from the Chironomus pallividittatus genome has been localized to the telomeres by in situ hybridization as well as to connectives between telomeres. No hybridization was observed in other regions of the chromosomes. Another cloned EcoRI fragment, 525 bp long has also been studied. This represents a partial duplication of the 340-bp sequence. Genomic blot hybridization experiments show that the 340-bp sequence is a representative monomeric unit of tandemly repeated arrays which account for 1.2% of the Chironomus genome, on average 300 kb per telomere. The repeat unit contains two types of subrepeats each present twice per repeat unit. Northern blot hybridization experiments show that the telomere-associated sequences are transcribed into a discrete RNA species approximately 20 kb in size. The evolution of this telomere-associated DNA is discussed.
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