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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-2-3
pubmed:abstractText
Poor sperm motility characterized by a distinct aberration in flagellar waveform known as "curlicue" is a hallmark of t haplotype (t) homozygous male sterility. Previous studies have localized "curlicue" and a flagellar developmental defect, "whipless", to the Hybrid Sterility 6 locus (Hst6), between the markers Pim1 and Crya1. More recent heterospecific breeding experiments between Mus spretus (Spretus) and Mus musculus domesticus (Domesticus) have mapped the primary source(s) of both "curlicue" and "whipless" to a small sub-locus of Hst6, Curlicue a (Ccua). Here we report the complete physical isolation of the Ccua locus and the identification of a candidate gene for expression of both "whipless" and "curlicue" at its proximal end, an axonemal dynein heavy chain gene, Dnahc8, formerly mapped by interspecific backcross analysis near Pim1. Dnahc8 mRNA expression commences in the Domesticus wild-type testis just prior to flagellar assembly and is testis-specific in the adult male. However, expression of Dnahc8 is not readily evident in the testis of either Spretus or "whipless" animals (Domesticus males homozygous for the Spretus allele of Dnahc8). Our results argue that Dnahc8 is fundamental to flagellar organization and function in Domesticus, but not Spretus, and suggest that Dnahc8 is integral to both Hst6- and t-specific male infertility.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0938-8990
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8-15
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Axons, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Blotting, Southern, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Crosses, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Dyneins, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Electrophoresis, Agar Gel, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Haplotypes, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Infertility, Male, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-RNA, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:10602986-Sperm Motility
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
An axonemal dynein at the Hybrid Sterility 6 locus: implications for t haplotype-specific male sterility and the evolution of species barriers.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.