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  • Title: Conservation of a satellite DNA sequence (SATB) in the tilapiine and haplochromine genome (Pisces: Cichlidae).
    Author: Franck JP, Wright JM.
    Journal: Genome; 1993 Feb; 36(1):187-94. PubMed ID: 8458567.
    Abstract:
    We have cloned and sequenced a 1900-bp EcoRI fragment (SATB) from the tilapiine fish Oreochromis niloticus. The SATB sequence is highly reiterated in the tilapiine genome and organized in long tandem arrays. A 760-bp HindIII fragment, an internal component of SATB, has also been cloned and sequenced from the related tilapiine species Oreochromis hornorum. Hybridization of the radiolabelled 760-bp HindIII repeat detected the presence of the SATB repeat in the genomes of several tilapiine species as well as the haplochromine species Haplochromis (Protomelas) similis. The 760-bp HindIII fragment did not hybridize to genomic DNA of Etroplus maculatus (an Asian cichlid) or to that of Cichlasoma meeki (a South American cichlid). The SATB repeat sequence is 56% AT and constitutes 0.2-5% of the tilapiine genome depending on the species examined. Four imperfect 21-bp direct repeat sequences are present within the cloned 1900-bp EcoRI repeat. Alignment of the four direct repeats from the O. niloticus cloned 1900-bp DNA and the two homologous direct repeats from the O. hornorum 760-bp HindIII repeat revealed a core motif of 11 bp that exhibits 100% sequence identity between all of the direct repeats. The conservation of this motif in the SATB repeat suggests that this sequence may be under selective constraint.
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