F. Pelliccia et al., NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE AND CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING OF THE 5S RDNA REPEAT OF THE CRUSTACEAN PROASELLUS-COXALIS, Genome, 41(1), 1998, pp. 129-133
In this investigation we analysed the 5S rRNA genes of the isopod crus
tacean Proasellus coxalis. 5S rDNA hybridization of digested genomic D
NA and amplification by PCR demonstrate that these genes are organized
in tandem repeats of 589 bp, 120 of which represent the coding sequen
ce and 469 the spacer sequence. Proasellus coxalis is the first crusta
cean species in which 5S rRNA genes have been found tandemly arranged
without being linked to other repeated genes. The PCR product has been
used as a probe in FISH to locate the 5S rRNA genes on two chromosome
pairs of the P. coxalis karyotype. Comparison of the 5S rDNA sequence
of this species with previously published sequences of six other crus
tacean species shows the existence of a good correlation between phylo
genetic relationships and sequence identity.