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. 2021 Mar;130(1):15-25.
doi: 10.1007/s00412-020-00749-2. Epub 2021 Jan 14.

Limitation of current probe design for oligo-cross-FISH, exemplified by chromosome evolution studies in duckweeds

Phuong T N Hoang  1   2 , Jean-Marie Rouillard  3   4 , Jiří Macas  5 , Ivona Kubalová  1 , Veit Schubert  1 , Ingo Schubert  6
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Limitation of current probe design for oligo-cross-FISH, exemplified by chromosome evolution studies in duckweeds

Phuong T N Hoang et al. Chromosoma. 2021 Mar.

Abstract

Duckweeds represent a small, free-floating aquatic family (Lemnaceae) of the monocot order Alismatales with the fastest growth rate among flowering plants. They comprise five genera (Spirodela, Landoltia, Lemna, Wolffiella, and Wolffia) varying in genome size and chromosome number. Spirodela polyrhiza had the first sequenced duckweed genome. Cytogenetic maps are available for both species of the genus Spirodela (S. polyrhiza and S. intermedia). However, elucidation of chromosome homeology and evolutionary chromosome rearrangements by cross-FISH using Spirodela BAC probes to species of other duckweed genera has not been successful so far. We investigated the potential of chromosome-specific oligo-FISH probes to address these topics. We designed oligo-FISH probes specific for one S. intermedia and one S. polyrhiza chromosome (Fig. 1a). Our results show that these oligo-probes cross-hybridize with the homeologous regions of the other congeneric species, but are not suitable to uncover chromosomal homeology across duckweeds genera. This is most likely due to too low sequence similarity between the investigated genera and/or too low probe density on the target genomes. Finally, we suggest genus-specific design of oligo-probes to elucidate chromosome evolution across duckweed genera.

Keywords: Dual-color oligo-FISH; Duckweeds; Karyotype evolution; Landoltia; Lemna; Microsatellites; Spirodela; Structured illumination microscopy; Wolffia; Wolffiella.

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Conflict of interest statement

PNTH, JM, IK, VS, and IS declare to have no conflict of interest. JMR is an employee of Arbor Biosciences. Arbor Biosciences designed and manufactured probe sets for this study.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Oligo-FISH confirmed chromosome fusion in S. intermedia. a Scheme of homeologous chromosomes of S. polyrhiza and S. intermediaused for oligo-probe design; b oligo-probes labeled three different chromosome pairs in S. polyrhiza; c, d the co-localization of green (ChrSi09beg) and red (ChrSi09end) signals which label ChrSp08 and ChrSp18, respectively, confirmed their combination into ChrSi09 of S. intermedia (clones 8410 and 7747)
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Oligo-FISH with S. polyrhiza chromosome–specific probes on La. punctata (upper panel) and Le. aequinoctialis (lower panel). No green signals, but dispersed red signals were identified by spatial structured illumination microscopy (3D-SIM)
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
Distribution of GAA and GA microsatellite signals on La. punctata chromosomes. GAA (upper panel), GA (lower panel) microsatellite probes, and telomere repeats (TTTAGGG); imaged by 3D-SIM
Fig. 4
Fig. 4
Proposed workflow for designing probes for oligo-FISH across genera
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