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Ding B, Patterson EL, Holalu SV, Li J, Johnson GA, Stanley LE, Greenlee AB, Peng F, Bradshaw HD, Blinov ML, Blackman BK, Yuan YW. Two MYB Proteins in a Self-Organizing Activator-Inhibitor System Produce Spotted Pigmentation Patterns. Curr Biol 2020; 30:802-814.e8. [PMID: 32155414 PMCID: PMC7156294 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Revised: 11/24/2019] [Accepted: 12/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Many organisms exhibit visually striking spotted or striped pigmentation patterns. Developmental models predict that such spatial patterns can form when a local autocatalytic feedback loop and a long-range inhibitory feedback loop interact. At its simplest, this self-organizing network only requires one self-activating activator that also activates a repressor, which inhibits the activator and diffuses to neighboring cells. However, the molecular activators and inhibitors fully fitting this versatile model remain elusive in pigmentation systems. Here, we characterize an R2R3-MYB activator and an R3-MYB repressor in monkeyflowers (Mimulus). Through experimental perturbation and mathematical modeling, we demonstrate that the properties of these two proteins correspond to an activator-inhibitor pair in a two-component, reaction-diffusion system, explaining the formation of dispersed anthocyanin spots in monkeyflower petals. Notably, disrupting this pattern impacts pollinator visitation. Thus, subtle changes in simple activator-inhibitor systems are likely essential contributors to the evolution of the remarkable diversity of pigmentation patterns in flowers.
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- Baoqing Ding
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 111 Koshland Hall #3102, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Biology, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400328, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 111 Koshland Hall #3102, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Biology, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400328, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269, USA; College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 111 Koshland Hall #3102, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400328, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 111 Koshland Hall #3102, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Biology, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400328, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269, USA; Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut, 67 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
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Peng F, Byers KJRP, Bradshaw HD. Less is more: Independent loss-of-function OCIMENE SYNTHASE alleles parallel pollination syndrome diversification in monkeyflowers (Mimulus). Am J Bot 2017; 104:1055-1059. [PMID: 28724593 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1700104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2017] [Accepted: 06/14/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Pollinator-mediated selection on flower phenotypes (e.g., shape, color, scent) is key to understanding the adaptive radiation of angiosperms, many of which have evolved specialized relationships with a particular guild of animal pollinators (e.g., birds, bats, moths, bees). E-β-Ocimene, a monoterpene produced by OCIMENE SYNTHASE (OS) in Mimulus lewisii, is a floral scent important in attracting the species' bumblebee pollinators. The taxa closely related to M. lewisii have evolved several different pollination syndromes, including hummingbird pollination and self pollination (autogamy). We are interested in how floral scent variation contributed to species diversification in this clade. METHODS We analyzed variation in E-β-ocimene emission within this Mimulus clade and explored its molecular basis through a combination of DNA sequencing, reverse transcriptase PCR, and enzyme functional analysis in vitro. KEY RESULTS We found that none of the taxa, other than M. lewisii, emitted E-β-ocimene from flowers. But the molecular basis underlying loss of E-β-ocimene emission is unique in each taxon, including deletion, missense, or frameshift mutations in the OS gene, and potential posttranscriptional downregulation. CONCLUSIONS The molecular evidence suggests that parallel loss-of-function in OS is the best explanation for the observed pattern of E-β-ocimene emission, likely as the result of natural selection.
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- Foen Peng
- Department of Biology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 USA
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- Department of Biology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 USA
- Department of Zoology, Downing Street, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ England, UK
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- Department of Biology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 USA
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Ding B, Mou F, Sun W, Chen S, Peng F, Bradshaw HD, Yuan YW. A dominant-negative actin mutation alters corolla tube width and pollinator visitation in Mimulus lewisii. New Phytol 2017; 213:1936-1944. [PMID: 28164332 PMCID: PMC5300067 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2016] [Accepted: 09/16/2016] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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A third of all angiosperm species produce flowers with petals fused into a corolla tube. The various elaborations of corolla tube attributes, such as length, width and curvature, have enabled plants to exploit many specialized pollinator groups. These elaborations often differ dramatically among closely related species, contributing to pollinator shift and pollinator-mediated reproductive isolation and speciation. However, very little is known about the genetic and developmental control of these corolla tube attributes. Here we report the characterization of a semi-dominant mutant in the monkeyflower species Mimulus lewisii, with a substantial decrease in corolla tube width but no change in tube length. This morphological alteration leads to a ˜ 70% decrease in bumblebee visitation rate for the homozygous mutant compared to the wild-type. Through bulk segregant analysis and transgenic experiment, we show that the mutant phenotype is caused by a dominant-negative mutation in an actin gene. This mutation decreases epidermal cell width but not length, and probably also reduces the number of lateral cell divisions. These results suggest a surprising potential role for a 'housekeeping' gene in fine-tuning the development of an ecologically important floral trait.
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- Baoqing Ding
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269, USA
- Faculty of Forestry, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China
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- Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China
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- Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269, USA
- Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269, USA
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1. We measured the effects of variation in corolla curvature and nectary aperture radius on pollinator foraging ability using the hawkmoth Manduca sexta and 3D-printed artificial flowers whose shapes were mathematically specified. 2. In dimorphic arrays containing trumpet-shaped flowers and flat-disk flowers, hawkmoths were able to empty the nectaries of significantly more trumpet-shaped flowers regardless of nectary aperture size. Interestingly, trumpet-shaped flowers needed to deviate only slightly from the flat-disk morphotype in order to significantly increase hawkmoth foraging ability. 3. Whole-flower three-dimensional shape, particularly corolla curvature, has the potential to act as a mechanical guide for Manduca sexta, further implicating direct flower-proboscis contact as an important contributor to foraging success during flower handling in hawkmoths.
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- E O Campos
- Department of Biology, University of Washington, 98195, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, 98195, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, 98195, USA
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Yuan YW, Sagawa JM, Frost L, Vela JP, Bradshaw HD. Transcriptional control of floral anthocyanin pigmentation in monkeyflowers (Mimulus). New Phytol 2014; 204:1013-27. [PMID: 25103615 PMCID: PMC4221532 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2014] [Accepted: 07/05/2014] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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A molecular description of the control of floral pigmentation in a multi-species group displaying various flower color patterns is of great interest for understanding the molecular bases of phenotypic diversification and pollinator-mediated speciation. Through transcriptome profiling, mutant analyses and transgenic experiments, we aim to establish a 'baseline' floral anthocyanin regulation model in Mimulus lewisii and to examine the different ways of tinkering with this model in generating the diversity of floral anthocyanin patterns in other Mimulus species. We find one WD40 and one bHLH gene controlling anthocyanin pigmentation in the entire corolla of M. lewisii and two R2R3-MYB genes, PELAN and NEGAN, controlling anthocyanin production in the petal lobe and nectar guide, respectively. The autoregulation of NEGAN might be a critical property to generate anthocyanin spots. Independent losses of PELAN expression (via different mechanisms) explain two natural yellow-flowered populations of M. cardinalis (typically red-flowered). The NEGAN ortholog is the only anthocyanin-activating MYB expressed in the M. guttatus flowers. The mutant lines and transgenic tools available for M. lewisii will enable gene-by-gene replacement experiments to dissect the genetic and developmental bases of more complex floral color patterns, and to test hypotheses on phenotypic evolution in general.
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- Yao-Wu Yuan
- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Byers KJRP, Bradshaw HD, Riffell JA. Three floral volatiles contribute to differential pollinator attraction in monkeyflowers (Mimulus). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 217:614-23. [PMID: 24198269 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.092213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Flowering plants employ a wide variety of signals, including scent, to attract the attention of pollinators. In this study we investigated the role of floral scent in mediating differential attraction between two species of monkeyflowers (Mimulus) reproductively isolated by pollinator preference. The emission rate and chemical identity of floral volatiles differ between the bumblebee-pollinated Mimulus lewisii and the hummingbird-pollinated M. cardinalis. Mimulus lewisii flowers produce an array of volatiles dominated by d-limonene, β-myrcene and E-β-ocimene. Of these three monoterpenes, M. cardinalis flowers produce only d-limonene, released at just 0.9% the rate of M. lewisii flowers. Using the Bombus vosnesenskii bumblebee, an important pollinator of M. lewisii, we conducted simultaneous gas chromatography with extracellular recordings in the bumblebee antennal lobe. Results from these experiments revealed that these three monoterpenes evoke significant neural responses, and that a synthetic mixture of the three volatiles evokes the same responses as the natural scent. Furthermore, the neural population shows enhanced responses to the M. lewisii scent over the scent of M. cardinalis. This neural response is reflected in behavior; in two-choice assays, bumblebees investigate artificial flowers scented with M. lewisii more frequently than ones scented with M. cardinalis, and in synthetic mixtures the three monoterpenes are necessary and sufficient to recapitulate responses to the natural scent of M. lewisii. In this system, floral scent alone is sufficient to elicit differential visitation by bumblebees, implying a strong role of scent in the maintenance of reproductive isolation between M. lewisii and M. cardinalis.
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- Kelsey J R P Byers
- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1800, USA
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Yuan YW, Byers KJRP, Bradshaw HD. The genetic control of flower-pollinator specificity. Curr Opin Plant Biol 2013; 16:422-8. [PMID: 23763819 PMCID: PMC3748206 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2013.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2013] [Revised: 05/15/2013] [Accepted: 05/17/2013] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The ca. 275,000 species of flowering plants are the result of a recent adaptive radiation driven largely by the coevolution between plants and their animal pollinators. Identification of genes and mutations responsible for floral trait variation underlying pollinator specificity is crucial to understanding how pollinator shifts occur between closely related species. Petunia, Mimulus, and Antirrhinum have provided a high standard of experimental evidence to establish causal links from genes to floral traits to pollinator responses. In all three systems, MYB transcription factors seem to play a prominent role in the diversification of pollinator-associated floral traits.
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- Yao-Wu Yuan
- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States
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A wide range of symptoms are commonly ascribed to pelvic organ prolapse including pain, awareness of lump, bowel, bladder and sexual dysfunction. The aim of this work was to develop and validate an instrument to quantify symptoms related to pelvic organ prolapse. Consultation with symptomatic women and specialists in coloproctology, urology, gynaecology and sexual health resulted in a questionnaire with 25 questions. In total, 203 women participated in a psychometric testing of this instrument, 152 cases with prolapse and 51 controls without. The content validity, criterion validity, reliability and responsiveness of the questionnaire were evaluated. The questionnaire proved a reliable and valid instrument for the assessment of symptoms related to uterovaginal prolapse. It is also sensitive to change.
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- H D Bradshaw
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
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Reichard S, Hinckley TM, Bradshaw HD. Terrorists are activists who renounce non-violence. Nature 2007; 448:22. [PMID: 17611519 DOI: 10.1038/448022c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Hiller L, Bradshaw HD, Radley SC, Radley S. Criterion validity of the BBUSQ-22: a questionnaire assessing bowel and urinary tract symptoms in women. Int Urogynecol J 2007; 18:1133-7. [PMID: 17245544 DOI: 10.1007/s00192-007-0308-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2006] [Accepted: 01/09/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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To evaluate the criterion validity of the Birmingham Bowel and Urinary Symptoms Questionnaire (BBUSQ-22). Forty-four women presenting with urinary or bowel symptoms to a urogynaecology/functional bowel clinic, completed three disease-specific questionnaires (Birmingham Bowel and Urinary Symptoms Questionnaire, Sheffield Prolapse Symptoms Questionnaire and King's Health Questionnaire) and two generic questionnaires (SF-36 and EuroQol). Wilcoxon rank sum tests, Spearman's rank correlations and multiple regression analyses were undertaken. All clinically hypothesised correlations between the questionnaires' domains were found significant, and all domains hypothesised to be predictors of the BBUSQ-22 domains were proven to be prognostic, without explaining too much variability to doubt their uniqueness. The similarity among the measures has been proved without such relationships being too strong to call into question the distinctiveness of the concepts being measured. Overall, criterion validity is demonstrated, and the clinical usefulness of the addition this questionnaire makes to the area is highlighted.
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- L Hiller
- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
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Plant tolerance of serpentine soils is potentially an excellent model for studying the genetics of adaptive variation in natural populations. A large-scale viability screen of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants on a defined nutrient solution with a low Ca(2+) : Mg(2+) ratio (1 : 24 mol : mol), typical of serpentine soils, yielded survivors with null alleles of the tonoplast calcium-proton antiporter CAX1. cax1 mutants have most of the phenotypes associated with tolerance to serpentine soils, including survival in solutions with a low Ca(2+) : Mg(2+) ratio; requirement for a high concentration of Mg(2+) for maximum growth; reduced leaf tissue concentration of Mg(2+); and poor growth performance on 'normal' levels of Ca(2+) and Mg(2+). A physiological model is proposed to explain how loss-of-function cax1 mutations could produce all these phenotypes characteristic of plants adapted to serpentine soils, why 'normal' plants are unable to survive on serpentine soil, and why serpentine-adapted plants are unable to compete on 'normal' soils.
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- H D Bradshaw
- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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Bradshaw HD, Schemske DW. Allele substitution at a flower colour locus produces a pollinator shift in monkeyflowers. Nature 2003; 426:176-8. [PMID: 14614505 DOI: 10.1038/nature02106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 464] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2003] [Accepted: 10/03/2003] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The role of major mutations in adaptive evolution has been debated for more than a century. The classical view is that adaptive mutations are nearly infinite in number with infinitesimally small phenotypic effect, but recent theory suggests otherwise. To provide empirical estimates of the magnitude of adaptive mutations in wild plants, we conducted field studies to determine the adaptive value of alternative alleles at a single locus, YELLOW UPPER (YUP). YUP controls the presence or absence of yellow carotenoid pigments in the petals of pink-flowered Mimulus lewisii, which is pollinated by bumblebees, and its red-flowered sister species M. cardinalis, which is pollinated by hummingbirds. We bred near-isogenic lines (NILs) in which the YUP allele from each species was substituted into the other. M. cardinalis NILs with the M. lewisii YUP allele had dark pink flowers and received 74-fold more bee visits than the wild type, whereas M. lewisii NILs with the M. cardinalis yup allele had yellow-orange flowers and received 68-fold more hummingbird visits than the wild type. These results indicate that an adaptive shift in pollinator preference may be initiated by a single major mutation.
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- H D Bradshaw
- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
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Evolutionists have long recognized the role of reproductive isolation in speciation, but the relative contributions of different reproductive barriers are poorly understood. We examined the nature of isolation between Mimulus lewisii and M. cardinalis, sister species of monkeyflowers. Studied reproductive barriers include: ecogeographic isolation; pollinator isolation (pollinator fidelity in a natural mixed population); pollen competition (seed set and hybrid production from experimental interspecific, intraspecific, and mixed pollinations in the greenhouse); and relative hybrid fitness (germination, survivorship, percent flowering, biomass, pollen viability, and seed mass in the greenhouse). Additionally, the rate of hybridization in nature was estimated from seed collections in a sympatric population. We found substantial reproductive barriers at multiple stages in the life history of M. lewisii and M. cardinalis. Using range maps constructed from herbarium collections, we estimated that the different ecogeographic distributions of the species result in 58.7% reproductive isolation. Mimulus lewisii and M. cardinalis are visited by different pollinators, and in a region of sympatry 97.6% of pollinator foraging bouts were specific to one species or the other. In the greenhouse, interspecific pollinations generated nearly 50% fewer seeds than intraspecific controls. Mixed pollinations of M. cardinalis flowers yielded >75% parentals even when only one-quarter of the pollen treatment consisted of M. cardinalis pollen. In contrast, both species had similar siring success on M. lewisii flowers. The observed 99.915% occurrence of parental M. lewisii and M. cardinalis in seeds collected from a sympatric population is nearly identical to that expected, based upon our field observations of pollinator behavior and our laboratory experiments of pollen competition. F1 hybrids exhibited reduced germination rates, high survivorship and reproduction, and low pollen and ovule fertility. In aggregate, the studied reproductive barriers prevent, on average, 99.87% of gene flow, with most reproductive isolation occurring prior to hybrid formation. Our results suggest that ecological factors resulting from adaptive divergence are the primary isolating barriers in this system. Additional studies of taxa at varying degrees of evolutionary divergence are needed to identify the relative importance of pre- and postzygotic isolating mechanisms in speciation.
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- Justin Ramsey
- Biology Department, Box 355325, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
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Bradshaw HD, Barker AT, Radley SC, Chapple CR. The acute effect of magnetic stimulation of the pelvic floor on involuntary detrusor activity during natural filling and overactive bladder symptoms. BJU Int 2003; 91:810-3. [PMID: 12780838 DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-410x.2003.04235.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of magnetic stimulation of the pelvic floor (MSPF) on involuntary detrusor activity observed during natural filling, and on the overactive bladder symptom complex. PATIENTS AND METHODS Eighteen women with detrusor overactivity on conventional cystometry underwent ambulatory urodynamic monitoring over two filling cycles. Fluid intake was standardized, provocative manoeuvres applied at regular intervals and symptoms documented contemporaneously. During the second filling cycle MSPF was delivered whenever the detrusor pressure increased by > 5 cmH2O. The women were subsequently treated with MSPF for 6 weeks; their lower urinary tract symptoms were assessed before and after treatment. RESULTS Comparing the second (stimulated) cycle with the first (unstimulated) cycle, cystometric capacity was higher (373 vs 224 mL, P < 0.03). and involuntary detrusor activity of shorter duration (370 vs 427 s, P < 0.82) and lower amplitude (53 vs 63 cmH2O, P < or = 0.05). All women tolerated the procedure comfortably, but nine found it too time-consuming and withdrew. In the nine women who completed treatment there was no consistent change in overactive bladder symptoms. CONCLUSIONS In this pilot study, MSPF during natural filling was associated with a decrease in the amplitude of involuntary detrusor contractions and a significant increase in cystometric capacity. However, MSPF had a variable effect on sensations of urgency, both acutely and after treatment, and currently there is no evidence to suggest that MSPF has an enduring effect on symptoms of the overactive bladder.
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- H D Bradshaw
- Department of Urology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, UK.
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Ferris R, Long L, Bunn SM, Robinson KM, Bradshaw HD, Rae AM, Taylor G. Leaf stomatal and epidermal cell development: identification of putative quantitative trait loci in relation to elevated carbon dioxide concentration in poplar. Tree Physiol 2002; 22:633-640. [PMID: 12069919 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/22.9.633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Genetic variation in stomatal initiation and density, and epidermal cell size and number were examined in a hybrid pedigree of Populus trichocarpa T. & G. and P. deltoides Marsh in both ambient ([aCO2]) and elevated ([eCO2]) concentrations of CO2. We aimed to link anatomical traits with the underlying genetic map of F2 Family 331, composed of 350 markers across 19 linkage groups. Leaf stomatal and epidermal cell traits showed pronounced differences between the original parents. We considered the following traits in the F2 population: stomatal density (SD), stomatal index (SI), epidermal cell area (ECA) and the number of epidermal cells per leaf (ECN). In [eCO2], adaxial SD and SI were reduced in the F2 population, whereas ECA increased and ECN remained unchanged. In [aCO2], four putative quantitative trait loci (QTL) with logarithm of the odds ratio (LOD) scores greater than 2.9 were found for stomatal traits on linkage group B: adaxial SI (LOD scores of 5.4 and 5.2); abaxial SI (LOD score of 3.3); and SD (LOD score of 3.2). These results imply that QTL for SI and SD share linkage group B and are under genetic control. More moderate LOD scores (LOD scores >/= 2.5) suggest QTL for SI on linkage groups A and B and for SD on linkage groups B, D and X with a probable co-locating quantitative trait locus for SI and SD on linkage group D (position 46.3 cM). The QTL in both [aCO2] and [eCO2] for adaxial SD were co-located on linkage group X (LOD scores of 3.5 and 2.6, respectively) indicating a similar response across both treatments. Putative QTL were located on linkage group A (position 89.2 cM) for both leaf size and ECN in [aCO2] and for ECA at almost the same position. The data provide preliminary evidence that leaf stomatal and cell traits are amenable to QTL analysis.
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- Rachel Ferris
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Bassett Crescent East, Southampton S016 7PX, UK.
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OBJECTIVE To develop a simple scoring system for a validated 22-item questionnaire used to assess bowel and urinary dysfunction in women. SETTING A urogynaecology clinic, a functional bowel clinic, a district general hospital and a general practice. POPULATION One hundred and one women referred with functional bowel and/or urinary symptoms and 131 asymptomatic controls. METHODS A user manual has been prepared. Individual responses to questions are categorised into normal and abnormal and odds ratio tests applied to reflect their sensitivity. RESULTS Scoring methods have been detailed, and appropriate and sensitive cutoff points defined. CONCLUSIONS The use of this validated questionnaire is now aided by a user manual, facilitating health care evaluation research into the effects of pelvic surgery on pelvic floor symptomatology. A simple scoring system is provided, making the questionnaire a valuable and accessible research tool.
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- L Hiller
- Cancer Research UK, Institute for Cancer Studies, Edgbaston, Birmingham
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Newcombe G, Stirling B, Bradshaw HD. Abundant Pathogenic Variation in the New Hybrid Rust Melampsora xcolumbiana on Hybrid Poplar. Phytopathology 2001; 91:981-985. [PMID: 18944125 DOI: 10.1094/phyto.2001.91.10.981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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ABSTRACT The recently described rust hybrid Melampsora xcolumbiana was discovered as a result of its novel pathogenic variation on Populus trichocarpa x P. deltoides (TxD) hybrid poplar. To characterize this pathogenic variation, 10 commercial TxD clones, all F(1) clones, were chosen as host differentials. Fourteen mononuredinial isolates of Pacific Northwestern field collections of M. xcolumbiana, from 1996 to 1998 inclusive, were determined to be 13 distinct pathotypes. In contrast, four Southeastern isolates of M. medusae could not be distinguished on the same TxD host differentials, although they can be distinguished as pathotypes using P. deltoides differentials. The first three pathotypes of M. xcolumbiana (Mxc1, Mxc2, and Mxc3) and a Mississippi isolate of M. medusae were inoculated onto a three-generation TxD pedigree, formerly used to characterize the Mmd1 gene for resistance to M. medusae. Resistance to the Mxc3 pathotype mapped to the same linkage group (group Q) as the Mmd1 gene. In contrast, linked genes for resistance to Mxc1 and to Mxc2 were located on linkage group O, and were unlike Mmd1 and Mxc3 in that they were inherited from P. deltoides. The latter two genes resembled Mmd1 and Mxc3 in that infection type was correlated with quantitative traits such as uredinial density and latent period. Pathogenic variation in M. xcolumbiana matches resistance genes from both P. trichocarpa and P. deltoides and reveals the vulnerability to hybrid rust of commercial TxD hybrid poplar clones.
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BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine the criteria used by surgeons in a district general hospital to confirm success following vasectomy, to establish the proportion of men undergoing vasectomy in whom the procedure was unsuccessful according to those criteria, and to evaluate their subsequent management. METHODS All 15 surgeons performing vasectomy indicated that they required two consecutive azoospermic postvasectomy semen specimens before they advised couples that the vasectomy was successful. Results of postvasectomy semen analysis (PVSA) for all 240 primary vasectomies performed over a 12-month interval were analysed. Minimum follow-up was 30 (range 30-42; median 37) months. RESULTS At follow-up 72 men (30 per cent) had not returned postvasectomy samples that fulfilled the criteria, including 18 who were azoospermic on the first PVSA 3 months after vasectomy but who failed to produce a second specimen. In 24 men (10 per cent) who failed to comply with the PVSA protocol, there was no documentation of any further action being taken. No pregnancies were reported in the partners of the study group during this interval and only one patient underwent repeat vasectomy. CONCLUSION The results suggest that the strict requirement of two consecutive azoospermic postvasectomy semen specimens may be unjustified, leads to a high level of non-compliance and causes unnecessary delay in confirming success of the procedure.
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- H D Bradshaw
- Department of Urology, Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital, Calow, Chesterfield S44 5BL, UK
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Frewen BE, Chen TH, Howe GT, Davis J, Rohde A, Boerjan W, Bradshaw HD. Quantitative trait loci and candidate gene mapping of bud set and bud flush in populus. Genetics 2000; 154:837-45. [PMID: 10655234 PMCID: PMC1460936 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/154.2.837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The genetic control of bud phenology in hybrid poplar was studied by mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting the timing of autumn bud set and spring bud flush. The founders of the mapping pedigree were collected from widely separated latitudes to maximize segregating variation for dormancy-related traits in the F(2) generation-the female Populus trichocarpa parent is from Washington State (48 degrees N) and the male P. deltoides parent is from Texas (31 degrees N). Bud set and bud flush timing were measured on the F(2) generation in a replicated clonal field trial. Using a linkage map constructed of AFLP and microsatellite markers, three QTL controlling bud set and six QTL controlling bud flush were detected. Additionally, five candidate genes believed to be involved in perception of photoperiod (PHYB1, PHYB2) or transduction of abscisic acid response signals (ABI1B, ABI1D, and ABI3) were placed on the QTL map. PHYB2 and ABI1B were found to be coincident with QTL affecting bud set and bud flush.
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- B E Frewen
- College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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A paradigm of evolutionary biology is that adaptation and reproductive isolation are caused by a nearly infinite number of mutations of individually small effect. Here, we test this hypothesis by investigating the genetic basis of pollinator discrimination in two closely related species of monkeyflowers that differ in their major pollinators. This system provides a unique opportunity to investigate the genetic architecture of adaptation and speciation because floral traits that confer pollinator specificity also contribute to premating reproductive isolation. We asked: (i) What floral traits cause pollinator discrimination among plant species? and (ii) What is the genetic basis of these traits? We examined these questions by using data obtained from a large-scale field experiment where genetic markers were employed to determine the genetic basis of pollinator visitation. Observations of F2 hybrids produced by crossing bee-pollinated Mimulus lewisii with hummingbird-pollinated Mimulus cardinalis revealed that bees preferred large flowers low in anthocyanin and carotenoid pigments, whereas hummingbirds favored nectar-rich flowers high in anthocyanins. An allele that increases petal carotenoid concentration reduced bee visitation by 80%, whereas an allele that increases nectar production doubled hummingbird visitation. These results suggest that genes of large effect on pollinator preference have contributed to floral evolution and premating reproductive isolation in these monkeyflowers. This work contributes to growing evidence that adaptation and reproductive isolation may often involve major genes.
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- D W Schemske
- Department of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Bradshaw HD, Otto KG, Frewen BE, McKay JK, Schemske DW. Quantitative trait loci affecting differences in floral morphology between two species of monkeyflower (Mimulus). Genetics 1998; 149:367-82. [PMID: 9584110 PMCID: PMC1460141 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/149.1.367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 261] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Conspicuous differences in floral morphology are partly responsible for reproductive isolation between two sympatric species of monkeyflower because of their effect on visitation of the flowers by different pollinators. Mimulus lewisii flowers are visited primarily by bumblebees, whereas M. cardinalis flowers are visited mostly by hummingbirds. The genetic control of 12 morphological differences between the flowers of M. lewisii and M. cardinalis was explored in a large linkage mapping population of F2 plants n = 465 to provide an accurate estimate of the number and magnitude of effect of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) governing each character. Between one and six QTLs were identified for each trait. Most (9/12) traits appear to be controlled in part by at least one major QTL explaining >/=25% of the total phenotypic variance. This implies that either single genes of individually large effect or linked clusters of genes with a large cumulative effect can play a role in the evolution of reproductive isolation and speciation.
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- H D Bradshaw
- College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
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Villar M, Lefèvre F, Bradshaw HD, Teissier du Cros E. Molecular genetics of rust resistance in poplars (Melampsora larici-populina Kleb/Populus sp.) by bulked segregant analysis in a 2 x 2 factorial mating design. Genetics 1996; 143:531-6. [PMID: 8722801 PMCID: PMC1207284 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/143.1.531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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With random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers, we have tagged a genomic region in Populus sp. involved in qualitative resistance to Melampsora larici-populina. Our approach was based on three steps: use of RAPD markers that can be quickly and efficiently researched: application of "bulked segregant analysis" technique on individuals of one interspecific family P. trichocarpa x P. deltoides to search for RAPD markers linked to resistance; and validation of these markers in two other families linked with the first one in a 2 x 2 factorial mating design. Of five detected markers, only one marker M03/04_480 was polymorphic in the three segregating families, involving 89 individuals and four different parents. We have estimated the recombination value of 1 cM with 1 cM sampling error.
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- M Villar
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Station d'Amélioration des Arbres Forestiers, Ardon, France
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Bradshaw HD, Stettler RF. Molecular genetics of growth and development in populus. IV. Mapping QTLs with large effects on growth, form, and phenology traits in a forest tree. Genetics 1995; 139:963-73. [PMID: 7713445 PMCID: PMC1206394 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/139.2.963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 228] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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We have mapped quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for commercially important traits (stem growth and form) and an adaptive trait (spring leaf flush) in a Populus F2 generation derived from a cross between interspecific F1 hybrids (P. trichocarpa x P. deltoides). Phenotypic data were collected over a 2-year period from a replicated clonal trial containing ramets of the parental, F1, and F2 trees. Contrary to the assumptions of simple polygenic models of quantitative trait inheritance, 1-5 QTLs of large effect are responsible for a large portion of the genetic variance in each of the traits measured. For example, 44.7% of the genetic variance in stem volume after 2 years of growth is controlled by just two QTLs. QTLs governing stem basal area were found clustered with QTLs for sylleptic branch leaf area, sharing similar chromosomal position and mode of action and suggesting a pleiotropic effect of QTLs ultimately responsible for stem diameter growth.
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- H D Bradshaw
- Center for Urban Horticulture GF-15, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
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Bradshaw HD, Stettler RF. Molecular genetics of growth and development in Populus. II. Segregation distortion due to genetic load. Theor Appl Genet 1994; 89:551-8. [PMID: 24177929 DOI: 10.1007/bf00222447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/1994] [Accepted: 02/02/1994] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Distortion of expected Mendelian segregation ratios, commonly observed in many plant taxa, has been detected in an experimental three-generation inbred pedigree of Populus founded by interspecific hybridization between P. trichocarpa and P. deltoides. An RFLP linkage map was constructed around a single locus showing severe skewing of segregation ratio against F2 trees carrying the P. trichocarpa allele in homozygous form. Several hypotheses for the mechanism of segregation distortion at this locus were tested, including directional chromosome loss, segregation of a pollen lethal allele, conflicts between genetic factors that isolate the parental species, and inbreeding depression as a result of genetic load. Breeding experiments to produce inbred and outcrossed progenies were combined with PCR-based detection of RFLPs to follow the fate of the deficient allele throughout embryo and seedling development. A recessive lethal allele, lth, inherited from the P. trichocarpa parent, was found to be tightly linked to the RFLP marker locus POP1054 and to cause embryo and seedling mortality. Heterozygotes (lth/+) appear to be phenotypically normal as embryos, seedlings, and young trees.
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- H D Bradshaw
- Department of Biochemistry SJ-70, University of Washington, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA
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Bradshaw HD, Villar M, Watson BD, Otto KG, Stewart S, Stettler RF. Molecular genetics of growth and development in Populus. III. A genetic linkage map of a hybrid poplar composed of RFLP, STS, and RAPD markers. Theor Appl Genet 1994; 89:167-78. [PMID: 24177824 DOI: 10.1007/bf00225137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/1993] [Accepted: 10/12/1993] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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We have evaluated three DNA-based marker types for linkage map construction in Populus: RFLPs detected by Southern blot hybridization, STSs detected by a combination of PCR and RFLP analysis, and RAPDs. The mapping pedigree consists of three generations, with the F1 produced by interspecific hybridization between a P. trichocarpa female and a P. deltoides male. The F2 generation was made by inbreeding to the maximum degree permitted by the dioecious mating system of Populus. The applicability of STSs and RAPDs outside the mapping pedigree has been investigated, showing that these PCR-based marker systems are well-suited to breeding designs involving interspecific hybridization. A Populus genome map (343 markers) has been constructed from a combination of all three types. The length of the Populus genome is estimated to be 2400-2800 cM.
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- H D Bradshaw
- Department of Biochemistry SJ-70, University of Washington, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA
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Clarke HR, Davis JM, Wilbert SM, Bradshaw HD, Gordon MP. Wound-induced and developmental activation of a poplar tree chitinase gene promoter in transgenic tobacco. Plant Mol Biol 1994; 25:799-815. [PMID: 8075397 DOI: 10.1007/bf00028875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Wounding hybrid poplar (Populus trichocarpa x P. deltoides) trees results in the expression of novel wound-inducible (win) mRNAs thought to encode proteins involved in defense against pests and pathogens. Members of the win6 gene family encode acidic multi-domain chitinases, with combined structure and charge characteristics that differ from previously described chitinases. Win6 expression has been shown to occur in pooled unwounded leaves of a wounded (on multiple leaves) poplar plant. Here we demonstrate that wounding a single leaf induces win6 expression locally, in the wounded leaf, and remotely, in specific unwounded leaves with strong vascular connections to the wounded leaf. We also demonstrate that a win6 promoter-beta-glucuronidase (GUS) gene fusion (win6-GUS) responds to wounding locally and remotely in transgenic tobacco. These data indicate that the poplar win6 promoter has regulatory elements that are responsive to 'wound signals' in the heterologous host. In addition, win6-GUS is developmentally activated in unwounded young leaves and floral tissues of transgenic tobacco. Similar developmental expression patterns are found to occur for win6 in poplar trees, demonstrating that a herbaceous plant can serve as a host for woody tree transgene analysis and can accurately predict expression patterns in tree tissues (e.g. flowers) that would be difficult to study in free-living trees.
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- H R Clarke
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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There is considerable urgency to study the mechanisms by which forest trees track environmental change, given the prospect of possible rapid climatic changes. Environmental tracking is achieved through three basic processes: (1) expression of phenotypic plasticity at the level of the individual; and (2) evolutionary change and (3) migration, both expressed at the level of the population over generations. The current distribution and genetic architecture of a species reflect how these processes interacted in response to past climatic changes during and after the last glaciation. Part of that record is encoded in the DNA of the current generation of trees and, as a result of existing field tests, is accessible for study. These field tests include, in ascending order of genetic resolution, (1) provenance tests, (2) progeny tests, and (3) three-generation clonal tests; as well as (4) clone tests, with or without genetic structure. The suitability and limitations of these tests for mechanistic studies of environmental tracking are described, both as field installations and as sources of material for parallel in-depth studies. We conclude that they represent an important information resource, which deserves to be more effectively used by the scientific community.
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- R F Stettler
- College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Bradshaw HD, Stettler RF. Molecular genetics of growth and development in Populus. I. Triploidy in hybrid poplars. Theor Appl Genet 1993; 86:301-307. [PMID: 24193473 DOI: 10.1007/bf00222092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/1992] [Accepted: 09/19/1992] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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While constructing a genetic linkage map of a hybrid poplar genome (Populus trichocarpa x P. deltoides), we identified several restriction fragment length polymorphismus (RFLPs) for which the parental trees are heterozygous. Although 8 of the 11 F1 hybrid offspring inherited, as expected, single RFLP alleles from each parent, 3 F1 trees in the mapping pedigree inherited both maternal alleles along with a single paternal allele at some loci. Aneuploidy or polyploidy in these 3 F1 trees due to partial or complete nondisj unction during female gametogenesis is the simplest explanation for this finding. Of the 3 f1 offspring with supernumerary RFLP alleles 2 have triploid nuclear DNA contents as measured by fluorescence flow cytometry; the 3rd F1 with supernumerary alleles has a sub-triploid nuclear DNA content and is probably aneuploid. Among the tri/aneuploid hybrids, leaf quantitative traits either are skewed toward those values characteristic of the P. trichocarpa female parent (adaxial stomate density, petiole length: blade length ratio; abaxial color) or show transgressive variation (epidermal cell size). Abaxial leaf color was used to screen a large population of P. trichocarpa x P. deltoides hybrids for further evidence of tri/aneuploidy. In each case where a "white" abaxial leaf surface was observed and the nuclear DNA content measured, the hybrid proved to be tri/aneuploid. All sexually mature female triploids examined were sterile, although the inflorescences completed their development in the absence of embryo formation. The (probably) aneuploid F1 hybrid is a fertile female. Of 15 female P. trichocarpa parents used in crosses to P. deltoides, 10 produced one or more tri/aneuploid hybrid offspring. In an intraspecific cross using a P. trichocarpa female that had produced triploid hybrids with five different P. deltoides males, no tri/aneuploid offpsring were found.
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- H D Bradshaw
- Department of Biochemistry SJ-70, University of Washington, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA
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A 6.9-kilobase region of the Escherichia coli F plasmid containing the 3' half of the traD gene and the entire traI gene (encodes the TraI protein, DNA helicase I and TraI, a polypeptide arising from an internal in-frame translational start in traI) has been sequenced. A previously unidentified open reading frame (tentatively trbH) lies between traD and traI.
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- H D Bradshaw
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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Morris DW, Barry PA, Bradshaw HD, Cardiff RD. Insertion mutation of the int-1 and int-2 loci by mouse mammary tumor virus in premalignant and malignant neoplasms from the GR mouse strain. J Virol 1990; 64:1794-802. [PMID: 2157060 PMCID: PMC249317 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.4.1794-1802.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV)-induced mammary adenocarcinomas can develop from several different premalignant precursors common in GR mice. Insertion mutagenesis of the mammary protooncogenes int-1 and int-2 was studied in this multistep system by analyzing samples from various stages of neoplastic development for novel int-1 and int-2 restriction fragments generated by MMTV provirus integration. int-1 and int-2 insertion mutations were observed in both premalignant lesions and malignant tumors. Some of the tumors with insertion mutations were experimentally derived from insertion mutation-free premalignant precursors. Each class of neoplasm examined had a characteristic frequency of int-1 and int-2 insertion mutations; however, no correspondence was observed between neoplasm morphology and mutation of either gene. These results indicate that insertion mutation of the int-1 and int-2 loci by MMTV provirus can be involved in the earliest identifiable stages of neoplastic development as well as during progression of premalignant lesions to tumors. Insertion mutation of int-1 and int-2 is therefore not stage specific in this system.
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- D W Morris
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616
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Bradshaw HD, Hollick JB, Parsons TJ, Clarke HR, Gordon MP. Systemically wound-responsive genes in poplar trees encode proteins similar to sweet potato sporamins and legume Kunitz trypsin inhibitors. Plant Mol Biol 1990; 14:51-9. [PMID: 2101311 DOI: 10.1007/bf00015654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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When the lower leaves of hybrid poplar trees are mechanically wounded, several novel mRNAs accumulate in the unwounded upper leaves (Parsons TJ, Bradshaw HD, Gordon MP: Systemic accumulation of specific mRNAs in response to wounding in poplar trees, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, in press). A partial cDNA clone corresponding to a transcript from the wound-responsive gene designated win 3 (wound-inducible) has been cloned by differential hybridization to 32P-labelled cDNA from the leaves of wounded trees. Northern blots show a large accumulation of win 3 transcripts in the unwounded leaves of wounded trees. Southern blot analysis of poplar DNA suggests that win 3 is a member of a multigene family. The nucleotide sequences of several win 3 cDNA clones have been determined, indicating that at least three win 3 gene family members are transcribed. A genomic clone of a win 3 gene family member has been isolated and a 1.5 kb Hind III fragment containing the predicted protein-coding and 5' upstream regions has been sequenced. The putative win 3 gene product is similar to the major soluble proteins of sweet potato tubers, sporamin A and sporamin B. Both Win3 and the sporamins share significant amino acid sequence identity with Kunitz-type trypsin inhibitors from legume seeds. The Kunitz family of proteinase inhibitors thus joints three other proteinase inhibitor families which are systemically responsive to wounding.
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- H D Bradshaw
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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cDNAs for several transcripts that accumulate systemically in response to mechanical wounding in a hybrid poplar have been cloned. The corresponding mRNAs become abundant in the unwounded upper leaves of poplar trees whose lower leaves have been damaged. Two of the cDNA clones have been characterized by Northern and Southern blotting, and their nucleotide sequences have been determined. These clones, designated win6 (wound-inducible) and win8, are members of multigene families encoding proteins with a high degree of similarity to chitinases from bean, tobacco, and barley. This initial demonstration of a systemic response to wounding in trees provides an approach to study defense mechanisms in woody plants at the biochemical, physiological, and ecological levels.
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- T J Parsons
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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Exogenous mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) was cloned from a GR mammary tumor. Clone lambda GRT39 contained a full-length integrated MMTV(GR) provirus and both 5' and 3' host flanking DNA. The lambda GRT39 provirus had no apparent structural changes associated with cloning and retained the exogenous MMTV gag gene poison sequence. When introduced into rat mammary adenocarcinoma LA7 cells, the lambda GRT39 provirus was fully expressed. lambda GRT39-transfected LA7 cells made MMTV RNA, had gp52 SU protein on the cell surface, and produced B-type retrovirus particles characteristic of MMTV. Mammary tumors developed in hormone-stimulated BALB/c females injected with MMTV from lambda GRT39-transfected LA7 cells [MMTV (lambda GRT39)]. The tumors had new, clonally integrated copies of the MMTV(lambda GRT39) provirus and were expressing MMTV antigen. These data indicate that the lambda GRT39 provirus is biologically active and pathogenic.
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MESH Headings
- Adenocarcinoma/microbiology
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Blotting, Southern
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Viral/analysis
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/microbiology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/pathogenicity
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/ultrastructure
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Microscopy, Electron
- Proviruses/genetics
- Proviruses/pathogenicity
- Rats
- Restriction Mapping
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- D W Morris
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616
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Bradshaw HD, Parson WW, Sheffer M, Lioubin PJ, Mulvihill ER, Gordon MP. Design, construction, and use of an electroporator for plant protoplasts and animal cells. Anal Biochem 1987; 166:342-8. [PMID: 3324822 DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(87)90583-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We have designed and constructed an electroporation device capable of efficient transfer of DNA into both plant cell protoplasts and cultured murine lymphocytes. The electroporator design allows various combinations of voltage and capacitance to be used to optimize the electric pulse. Switching of large voltages and currents is accomplished with a silicon-controlled rectifier, yielding excellent reproducibility and long component life. A safety switch is provided to permit complete discharge of the device. Conditions suitable for high levels of transient expression and high frequencies of stable transformation for both plant and animal cell systems have been found.
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- H D Bradshaw
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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Flemington E, Bradshaw HD, Traina-Dorge V, Slagel V, Deininger PL. Sequence, structure and promoter characterization of the human thymidine kinase gene. Gene 1987; 52:267-77. [PMID: 3301530 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(87)90053-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The 12.9-kb human thymidine kinase gene (tk) has been sequenced in its entirety along with flanking regions. Consistent with the previously sequenced chicken tk sequence, the human tk is composed of seven exons. The intron sizes differ substantially, and are responsible for the four-fold greater size of the human relative to the chicken gene. Within the introns are found 13 Alu family repeated sequences and a polypyrimidine stretch. A functional promoter region has been located by fusing sequences from the 5' end of the tk gene to the chloramphenicl acetyl transferase (CAT) gene and assaying CAT activity following transfection into mouse L cells. Several putative transcription signals have been identified in the 5' end including 'TATAA' and 'CCAAT' sequences and 'G-C' elements, two of which are arranged in a 27-bp inverted repeat. There is also a 12-bp repeat, containing an inverted 'CCAAT' element. This repeat shows strong homology to a repeat in the chicken tk promoter as well as the 5' regions of other cell-cycle regulated genes, suggesting that it may be part of the promoter or a regulatory signal. The 5' flanking sequence is G + C-rich and has a high concentration of CpG dinucleotides.
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Bradshaw HD, Deininger PL. Human thymidine kinase gene: molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence of a cDNA expressible in mammalian cells. Mol Cell Biol 1985; 4:2316-20. [PMID: 6549046 PMCID: PMC369060 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.4.11.2316-2320.1984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A cDNA containing the entire coding region of the human thymidine kinase gene has been molecularly cloned. The cDNA is under the control of a simian virus 40 promoter and is expressible in mammalian cells. The complete nucleotide sequence of the human thymidine kinase cDNA has been determined. The cDNA is 1,421 base pairs in length and has a large open reading frame of 702 base pairs capable of specifying a protein with a molecular weight of 25,504. Genomic Southern blotting experiments show that sequences homologous to the human thymidine kinase cDNA are conserved among many vertebrates, including prosimians (lemur), tree shrews, rats, mice, and chickens. Direct comparison of the nucleotide sequences of the human thymidine kinase cDNA and the chicken thymidine kinase gene reveals ca. 70% overall homology. This homology is extended further at the amino acid sequence level, with greater than 74% amino acid residues matched between the human and chicken thymidine kinase proteins.
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Claycomb WC, Bradshaw HD. Acquisition of multiple nuclei and the activity of DNA polymerase alpha and reinitiation of DNA replication in terminally differentiated adult cardiac muscle cells in culture. Dev Biol 1983; 99:331-7. [PMID: 6618006 DOI: 10.1016/0012-1606(83)90283-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Terminally differentiated ventricular cardiac muscle cells isolated from the adult rat and maintained in cell culture have been observed to acquire multiple nuclei. In one cultured myocyte as many as 10 nuclei have been counted. Apparently, these multiple nuclei are formed by DNA replication followed by karyokinesis; the cells must then fail to complete mitosis and divide. To investigate whether DNA synthesis was occurring, the cells were cultured in the presence of [3H]thymidine and then processed for autoradiography. Mononucleated, binucleated, and multinucleated cells incorporate [3H]thymidine into DNA as evidenced by the high concentration of silver grains over their nuclei. Peak periods of incorporation were observed to occur at 10- to 12-day intervals; at 11, 23, and 33 days after initially placing the cells in culture. When the cells were maintained in the presence of [3H]thymidine continuously from Day 7 to Day 17 of culture, 23% of the cells became labeled. If the cells were cultured continuously for 30 days in the presence of [3H]thymidine, from Day 10 to Day 40, 56% of the cells were labeled. Isopycnic gradient analysis indicates that this thymidine incorporation was into DNA that was being replicated semiconservatively; these experiments did not eliminate the possibility, however, that this incorporation was due to amplification of specific genes, such as those coding for the contractile proteins. The activity of DNA polymerase alpha also returns to these cells. These studies demonstrate that the terminally differentiated mammalian ventricular cardiac muscle cell, previously thought to have permanently lost the capacity to replicate DNA during early development, is able to reinitiate semiconservative DNA replication when grown in culture.
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A functional thymidine kinase (TK; ATP:thymidine 5'-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.21) gene has been molecularly cloned from human DNA. The gene was rescued from a genomic library of TK-deficient mouse L cells transformed to the TK+ phenotype with total HeLa cell DNA. Of 14 overlapping clones, only one contained the intact human TK gene. The cloned recombinant bacteriophage carries a 16-kilobase insert derived entirely from human DNA and is capable of transforming LTK- cells to TK+ with an efficiency of 10 TK+ colonies per ng of DNA per 10(6) cells. Restriction endonuclease mapping shows that the functional human TK gene is at least twice as long as that reported for chicken. A 1.6-kilobase Xho I/EcoRI fragment was subcloned and found to hybridize to a human mRNA of 1.5 kilobases. When introduced into LTK- cells, the cloned human TK gene is regulated in the cell cycle-specific manner characteristic of TK+ mammalian cells. That is, TK activity in synchronized cells increases markedly with the onset of DNA synthesis. The signals governing the S-phase induction of TK activity reside within 16 kilobases of human DNA and are correctly interpreted by mouse cells.
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The effects of glucocorticoids on lymphoid cell growth and thymidine incorporation into DNA were studied using the S49 mouse lymphoma cell line. Glucocorticoid-mediated lymphocytolysis in these cells is preceded by an arrest in the G1 phase of the cell cycle [1]. However, this arrest is only partial, and is reversible by washing out the hormone. Thus, although the overall impression is that these cells are arrested in G1 and then begin to die, they apparently can escape the arrest and proceed through the cell cycle, albeit at a relatively low level. The mode of DNA synthesis in these glucocorticoid-treated cells is replicative and not repair. The importance of the inhibition of thymidine incorporation to the cell death process in S49 cells is evident from experiments in which cells are treated with both the hormone and various DNA synthesis inhibitors; a synergistic killing of the cells is obtained. Thus, the inhibition of DNA synthesis and cell proliferation is a rapid, and perhaps primary effect of glucocorticoids on the complex process of hormone-mediated lymphocytolysis in this mouse cell line.
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The effects of glucocorticoids on DNA integrity in the mouse S49 lymphoma cell line were assessed. DNA cleavage at the internucleosomal regions was observed, and this response was correlated to the dose of hormone used and the time of treatment. Also, an apparent steroid specificity was observed: internucleosomal cleavage was associated only with treatment of the cells with glucocorticoids. Cells treated with dibutyryl cyclic AMP (which also causes lymphocytolysis) also exhibited DNA cleavage. However, when cells were killed with various DNA synthesis inhibitors and other lethal agents, the same DNA cleavage pattern was observed. Furthermore, new protein synthesis did not seem to be required, since cells killed with puromycin and cycloheximide also exhibited internucleosomal DNA fragmentation. Although DNA fragmentation may not be a specific early effect of glucocorticoid-mediated lymphocytolysis, it may be the final, irrevocable step in this complex process.
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