Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving nucleic acid
Patent
1991-07-09
1993-06-01
Yarbrough, Amelia Burgess
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving nucleic acid
4351721, 4353201, 435 91, 436501, 436811, 536 27, 935 9, 935 19, 935 29, 935 78, 935 86, 935 88, C12Q 168, C07H 1700
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ABSTRACT:
The present invention are nucleic acid probes which are highly selective for DNA specific to one sex of a livestock species, particularly pigs and chickens, and methods for their isolation, characterization, and utilization. These probes can be applied in a variety of methods for assaying the ratio of male to female mammalian sperm in an isolated fraction or the sex of an egg, as well as for determining the sex of an embryo in the early stages of development.
Genomic DNA from whole blood taken from a male and a female animal was digested with various restriction enzymes and the products compared on agarose gels. A band of approximately 4 kilobases in a EcoR1 digest of male pig DNA was absent in female pig DNA. In the chickens, a band of approximately 600 bases and a band of approximately 1200 bases were present in a XhoI digest of female DNA which was not present in the male DNA. The sex-specific DNA was then ligated into a vector and transformed into E. coli. The resulting vector DNA was shown by restriction analysis to contain the expected insert. The male pig-specific plasmid was deposited with the American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, Md. on Jan. 21, 1988 and assigned ATCC number 40417. The insert fragment was isolated, labelled, and shown to hybridize specifically with male pig DNA. The female chicken-specific clone was deposited with the ATCC on Jan. 21, 1988 and assigned ATCC number 40418. Probes made from the isolated insert were shown to specifically hybridize with female chicken DNA.
The cloned fragment and subfragments thereof were recloned into the sequencing vector M13 for sequencing using standard techniques.
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Burgess Yarbrough Amelia
Marschel Ardin H.
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc.
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