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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-1203
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. We have used a new method for binning minisatellite alleles (semi-automated allele aggregation) and report the extent of population diversity detectable by eleven minisatellite loci in 2689 individuals from 19 human populations distributed widely throughout the world. Whereas population relationships are consistent with those found in other studies, our estimate of genetic differentiation (Fst) between populations is less than 8%, which is lower than comparative estimates of between 10%–15% obtained by using other sources of polymorphism data. We infer that mutational processes are involved in reducing Fst estimates from minisatellite data because, first, the lowest Fst estimates are found at loci showing autocorrelated frequencies among alleles of similar size and, second, Fst declines with heterozygosity but by more than predicted assuming simple models of mutation. These conclusions are consistent with the view that minisatellites are subject to selective or mutational constraints in addition to those expected under simple stepwise mutation models.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-1203
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Polynesians have lower heterozygosities at minisatellite VNTR (Variable Number of Tandem Repeat) loci than have Melanesians; this has been taken as evidence of population-size bottlenecks during the colonisation of Polynesia. We have analysed the allelic distribution of several minisatellite loci in the population of Rapa, a Polynesian island that is known to have undergone a demographic reduction of approximately 95% since first contact with European explorers 200 years ago, leaving a surviving population of 120. We found that the minisatellite diversity of this population does not differ significantly from that of other Polynesian populations, and appears consistent with the neutral expectation of diversity assuming the infinite alleles model. This suggests that the demographic crisis that Rapa underwent did not perturb the allele distribution to the extent that the tests used here could detect. Thus we cannot say that a demographic change of this magnitude constitutes a genetic bottleneck detectable at these loci. The reduced diversity seen in Polynesia must therefore be explained either by more severe bottlenecks as might be expected during colonisation, or else by other causes.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-203X
    Keywords: Key words Banana bunchy top virus ; Promoter ; Vascular expression ; Green fluorescent protein ; Intron-mediated enhancement
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The intergenic regions of banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) DNA-1 to -5 were fused to the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and uidA reporter genes and assessed for promoter activity in transgenic banana (Musa spp. cv. Bluggoe). Promoter activity associated with the BBTV-derived promoters was transgene dependent with greatest activity observed using the GFP reporter. The BBTV promoters (BT1 to BT5) directed expression primarily in vascular-associated cells, although levels of activity varied between individual promoters. Promoters BT4 and BT5 directed the highest levels of GFP expression, while activity from BT1, BT2 and BT3 promoters was considerably weaker. Intron-mediated enhancement, using the maize polyubiquitin 1 (ubi1) intron, generated a significant increase in GUS expression directed by the BBTV promoters in transgenic plants.
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  • 4
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    Archives of virology 137 (1994), S. 371-380 
    ISSN: 1432-8798
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary A 93 nucleotide sequence was found to be strongly conserved between two ssDNA genomic components of banana bunchy top virus (BBTV). Two outwardly extending degenerate primers were designed from this sequence and used in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with DNA extracted from purified BBTV virions. PCR amplified products consisting of at least seven distinct bands all approximately 1 kb and possibly representing full-length BBTV dsDNA were resolved. The PCR amplified products were cloned and the clones screened by restriction enzyme analysis. Four distinct restriction analysis groups were identified. These results confirm that the genome of BBTV contains at least five components and that it belongs to a previously undescribed group of plant viruses which may also contain subterranean clover stunt virus.
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  • 5
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    Archives of virology 144 (1999), S. 2259-2263 
    ISSN: 1432-8798
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary.  The 5′ and 3′ terminal sequences of the plus strand of Fiji disease fijivirus (FDV) segments 2, 3, 9 and 10 possess the conserved terminal sequences, 5′AAGUUUUU… . .CAGCAGAUGUC 3′. The 5′ sequence is identical to that of maize rough dwarf fijivirus (MRDV) and rice black-streaked dwarf fijivirus (RBSDV), whereas the FDV 3′ sequence shares the consensus, CAGCNNNNGUC, with MRDV and RBSDV. The FDV terminal sequences, and the amino acid sequences from FDV segment 9, are more closely related to those from MRDV and RBSDV than to those from oat sterile dwarf fijivirus (OSDV) and Nilaparvata lugens reovirus (NLRV; a putative Fijivirus).
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1432-8798
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary We have sequenced the NIb coding region of sugarcane mosaic potyvirus strain SC (SCMV-SC) and eight field isolates of SCMV from Australia. This region comprised 1563 nucleotides and encoded a putative protein of 521 amino acids containing the consensus motif GDD. The protease cleavage sites between the NIa/NIb and the NIb/coat protein were found to be Q/C and Q/A, respectively. The SCMV sequences were most similar to sorghum mosaic potyvirus with identities of 70% and 78% at the nucleotide and amino acid levels, respectively. When the sequences were compared to each other, there was a maximum of 3.3% variation between isolates at the nucleotide level and a maximum of 0.8% at the amino acid level. Phylogenetic analysis of the sequences indicated the field isolates were grouped according to their geographical location. The SCMV sequence with most homology to all other isolates has been selected to generate constructs for replicase-mediated resistance.
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  • 7
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    Archives of virology 144 (1999), S. 89-105 
    ISSN: 1432-8798
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary.  Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) DNA-3 to 6 have each previously been shown to contain one large open reading frame in the virion sense, whereas no large ORF had been identified in BBTV DNA-2. RNAs transcribed from the BBTV genome were mapped using northern hybridisation and 3′ RACE. One mRNA was transcribed from each of BBTV DNA-2 to 6 and four of these mRNAs mapped to the ORFs previously identified in BBTV DNA-3 to 6. The mRNA of BBTV DNA-2 was transcribed from a virion sense ORF probably using a TATA box sequence different to that in BBTV DNA-1, and DNA-3 to 6. This ORF encoded a 10 kDa protein of unknown function. The 3′ untranslated region of the five mRNAs varied from 25 nucleotides (BBTV DNA-6) to 167 nucleotides (BBTV DNA-4) and each contained putative polyadenylation signals with associated GT rich sequences together with a possible termination signal (C/T/A)TGTAA conserved in all five mRNAs.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1432-8798
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Four cDNA clones were generated from the genomic dsRNA of an Australian isolate of pangola stunt Fijivirus (PaSV). Each clone hybridized with nucleic acid extracts from PaSV infected plants but not healthy plants. Further, each clone hybridized with more than one segment of the PaSV dsRNA genome. One clone was used to demonstrate that homology existed between the Australian isolate of PaSV and a South American isolate of PaSV although the isolates differed in the sizes of the genomic dsRNAs and in the vector species. The clone also hybridized with some segments of the maize rough dwarf Fijivirus genome.
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  • 9
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    Archives of virology 142 (1997), S. 1673-1680 
    ISSN: 1432-8798
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary. Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) has a multicomponent genome consisting of at least six circular single-stranded DNAs each with a single large open reading frame (ORF) in the virion sense. A protein of approximately 20 kDa has been associated with purified virions and is assumed to be the viral coat protein. The N-terminus of this protein was sequenced and compared to the predicted amino acid sequence of the large ORF of BBTV DNA-1 to 6. This comparison indicated that the ORF of BBTV DNA-3, which potentially encodes a protein of 19.3 kDa, was the coat protein gene of BBTV. The ORF sequence of BBTV DNA-3 was cloned into a prokaryotic expression vector, pMAL-c2, and the resulting maltose binding-BBTV coat protein fusion product was purified and used for the production of polyclonal antiserum in a rabbit. The resultant antiserum was able to detect the presence of BBTV in infected leaf tissue confirming that the large virion sense ORF of BBTV DNA-3 encodes the viral coat protein.
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  • 10
    ISSN: 1432-8798
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary.  We have sequenced the coat protein (CP) coding region of 11 field isolates of SCMV from Australia, USA and South Africa. The differences between the nucleotide sequences of the isolates was 0.2 to 4.1% and the encoded amino acid sequences differed by 0.0 to 3.5%. Phylogenetic analysis of the CP coding sequences of the SCMV isolates and the related potyviruses SCMV-MDB, JGMV, SrMV, MDMV-A and PVY showed that the SCMV isolates formed a tightly clustered group, with SCMV-MDB forming a separate branch. This indicated that (i) the SCMV isolates are of one strain (SCMV-A) and not geographically distinct species and (ii) SCMV-MDB is clearly distinct, and may represent another potyvirus species.
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