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J Mol Evol 1984 Jan 01;203-4:215-26. doi: 10.1007/bf02104728.
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Evolving sea urchin histone genes--nucleotide polymorphisms in the H4 gene and spacers of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.

Yager LN , Kaumeyer JF , Weinberg ES .


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We present a comparison of spacer and coding sequences of histone gene repeats from four Strongylocentrotus purpuratus individuals. Sequences of two previously cloned units (pCO2 and pSp2) were compared with three new histone gene clones, two of them from a single individual. Within a 1.7-kb region, 59 polymorphic sites were found in spacers, in mRNA nontranslated stretches, and at silent sites in codons of the H4 gene. The permitted silent-site changes were as frequent as in any other region studied. The most abundant polymorphisms were single-base substitutions. The ratio of transitions : transversions : single-base-pair insertions/deletions was 3:2:2. A number of larger insertions/deletions were found, as well as differences in the length of (CTA)n and (CT)n runs. Two of the five cloned repeats contained an insertion of a 195-bp element that is also present at many other sites in the genomes of every S. purpuratus individual studied. Pairwise comparisons of the different clones indicate that the variation is not uniformly divergent, but ranges from a difference of 0.34% to 3.0% of all nucleotide sites. A parsimonious tree of ancestry constructed from the pairwise comparisons indicates that recombination between the most distantly related repeats has not occurred in the 1-2 million years necessary for accumulation of the variation. The level of sequence variation found within the S. purpuratus population, for both tandemly repeated and single-copy genes, is 25%-50% of that found between S. purpuratus and S. drobachiensis.

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Genes referenced: LOC100887844

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