Polymorphism of Exon 3 of MHC Class II B Gene in Chinese Alligator (Alligator sinensis)

Hui Liu; Xiaobing Wu; Peng Yan; Zhigang Jiang

doi:10.1016/S1673-8527(07)60103-9

Volume 34 Issue 10

Oct. 2007

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Polymorphism of Exon 3 of MHC Class II B Gene in Chinese Alligator (Alligator sinensis)

doi: 10.1016/S1673-8527(07)60103-9

Hui Liu^{a, c},
Xiaobing Wu^{a, b},
Peng Yan^a,
Zhigang Jiang^b

a
Anhui Province Key Laboratory for Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resource, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal Univertsity, Wuhu 241000, China
b
Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Science Academy, Beijing 100080, China
c
Department of Bioscience, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233000, China

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Corresponding author: E-mail address: jiangzg@ioz.ac.cn (Xiaobing Wu)
Received Date: 2007-01-11
Accepted Date: 2007-04-18

Available Online: 2007-10-16

Publish Date: 2007-10-20

Abstract

Abstract

The polymorphism of MHC class II B gene in 14 Chinese alligators was analyzed, which came from three different areas: a wild population from Xuancheng, Anhui, a captive population from Changxing, Zhejiang, and a captive population from Anhui Research Center for Reproduction of Chinese Alligators. The gene fragment was amplified using a pair of specific primers designed from the MHC gene sequence of the spectacled caiman. A total of 34 sequence haplotypes of exon 3 were detected in the sampled Chinese alligators. The numbers of haplotypes of the 3 Chinese alligator populations were 15, 10, and 9, respectively. The overall estimation of the MHC polymorphism in the Chinese alligator population was higher than those in mammals and in cyprinid fish. The rates of nonsynonymous substitutions (d_N) occurred at a significantly lower frequency than that of synonymous substitutions (d_S), which were not consistent with the common rule. This result might suggest that the polymorphism of exon 3 seemed not to be maintained by the balancing selection. The neutrality test of Tajima excluded the null hypothesis that the polymorphism of exon 3 was generated by a random drift, and the fact that D = −0.401 indicated an excess of rare mutations in the Chinese alligator. The nucleotide diversity of the sequences and the phylogenetic relations were also analyzed, and the results suggested that there was no significant difference in genetic diversity among the 3 populations of Chinese alligator.
- major histocompatibility complex (MHC),
- polymorphism,
- haplotype

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