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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Sequence and analysis of chromosome 3 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

Jean WeissenbachWilliam C. NiermanChristopher D. TownA Perez-perezR. CookeBrian J. HaasSamir KaulT KatoClaire FujiiJ MilitscherMitsuyo KoharaSteven L. SalzbergA ConradHans-werner MewesD. HaaseM. ScharfeS BangertHean L. KooW. AnsorgeLaurence CattolicoPatrick WinckerRama MaitiMarcel SalanoubatErika AsamizuBénédicte PurnelleLuke J. TallonM FloresGrace PaiP BrottierKumi IdesawaRichard HollandP SellersJ C VenterS NakayamaMichela D'angeloHolger ErfleBerthold FartmannAi MatsunoElena CasacubertaBarbara SimionatiT WadaR WiedelmannAmparo MonfortChiaki KiyokawaM. RizzoJeremy PetersonD. VitaleJoan ClimentM. SchäferC TakeuchiGertrud MannhauptTerrance SheaP NavarroGerald NyakaturaPere PuigdomènechR MacheLeslie A. GrivellS. Van AkenPaolo ZaccariaStephen RuddH. VossB OttenwälderTodd CreasyJ ReicheltC Berger-llauroM LaudieK HornischerH DrzonekJ P AlcarazKai LemckeM UnseldN JordanC RobertShusei SatoT KimuraS Müller-auerNaomi NakazakiW SaurinDaphne PreussM. De HaanJ JenkinsFrancis QuetierD DucheminXiaoying LinAlberto PallaviciniA WatanabePetra BrandtKlaus F. X. MayerHeiko SchoofM YamadaJavier TerolSatoshi TabataBenesJohn GillFrançois ArtiguenaveYoshie KishidaNathalie ChoisneO SchönC. GabelE WurmbachMichael A. RiegerAlessandro VezziT KanekoT. H. LöhnertOwen WhiteG KauerM MatsumotoM. FuchsA WaltsG NordsiekMichel DelsenyShigemi SasamotoH KranzRosario LiguoriYasukazu NakamuraDavid MasuyH. BlöckerDe SimoneMiho YasudaTamara FeldblyumB. ObermaierGiorgio ValleManuel Pérez-alonsoSayaka ShinpoKumiko KawashimaA CottetAnagnostis ArgiriouT RooneyA.c. MaarseDongying WuC ColladoT. UtterbackClaire M. FraserM. D. BarguesStefano ToppoMarc BoutryAkiko Muraki

subject

DNA PlantSequence analysisArabidopsisplantGenomeComplete sequenceArabidopsisGene DuplicationCentromerePlant genomics; model organismHumansgenomic structureGenemodel organismPlant ProteinsGeneticsMultidisciplinarybiologyChromosomeChromosome MappingSequence Analysis DNAbiology.organism_classificationPlant genomicsgenome sequencingChromosome 3plant; genome sequencing; genomic structureGenome Plant

description

Arabidopsis thaliana is an important model system for plant biologists. In 1996 an international collaboration (the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative) was formed to sequence the whole genome of Arabidopsis and in 1999 the sequence of the first two chromosomes was reported. The sequence of the last three chromosomes and an analysis of the whole genome are reported in this issue. Here we present the sequence of chromosome 3, organized into four sequence segments (contigs). The two largest (13.5 and 9.2 Mb) correspond to the top (long) and the bottom (short) arms of chromosome 3, and the two small contigs are located in the genetically defined centromere. This chromosome encodes 5,220 of the roughly 25,500 predicted protein-coding genes in the genome. About 20% of the predicted proteins have significant homology to proteins in eukaryotic genomes for which the complete sequence is available, pointing to important conserved cellular functions among eukaryotes.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2000-01-01
10.1038/35048706http://hdl.handle.net/11368/1698366