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4 $page->header('Conserved Ortholog Set II (COSII) markers');
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15 <h3>Conserved Ortholog Set II (COSII) markers</h3>
18 <p>COSII markers are PCR-based markers developed from a
19 set of single-copy conserved orthologous genes (COSII
20 genes) in Asterid species. Each COSII gene (representing
21 a group of Asterid unigenes) matches only one single-copy
22 Arabidopsis gene. In comparison with COS markers reported
23 by Fulton et al. (2002), COSII markers/genes have the
24 following new properties:</p>
27 <li>Multiple EST-assembled unigene databases, tomato,
28 potato, pepper and coffee, as well as the Arabidopsis
29 CDS database, were screened computationally and the
30 method for establishing orthology was more robust.</li>
32 <li>Phylogenetic analyses support their classification
35 <li>They occur as single-copy genes in these
38 <li>Designed "Universal Primers" were able to amplify
39 orthologous counterparts (exons and/or introns) from
40 other related solanaceous species including those lack
41 of sequence data.</li>
44 <p>Therefore, this set of COSII genes as well as
45 Universal Primers is a powerful tool for establishing a
46 syntenic network between Solanaceae and Arabidopsis, and
47 for elucidating phylogenies, genome evolution and genome
48 organization of Solanaceae. Moreover, one can establish
49 similar orthologs sets and Universal Primers for other
50 plant families (especially dicots), and connect them with
51 COSII genes by the common Arabidopsis orthologs.</p>
53 <p>The computational screen for identifying COSII genes
54 is described in <a href="/documents/img/cosii.png">this diagram</a>.</p>
56 <p>In this section of SGN, you will find sequence
57 information of each COSII gene as well as the mapping
58 information of those mapped COSII genes (so called COSII
59 markers). We\'ve mapped more than 300 COSII markers in
60 tomato and will map more in the future, up to at least
61 500, and in the meanwhile, these COSII markers will be
62 mapped in major solanaceous species (e.g. eggplant,
63 pepper, Nicotiana, etc.). All the information in this
64 section will be updated as new data are generated, so
65 please come back and check from time to time.</p>
67 <h4>Universal Primers developed from COSII genes (iUPA
70 <p><em>Universal Primers for Asterid species</em> (UPA)
71 were designed on the consensus sequence of a COSII
72 gene/group, which amplify both exonic and intronic
73 regions in most, if not all, solanaceous species and
74 related taxa in the Asterid I clade of dicot plant
75 species, and which are therefore useful for comparative
76 mapping and phylogenetics.</p>
78 <p><em>Intronic UPA</em> (iUPA) amplify an intron with a
79 short stretch of the flanking exons and hence are useful
80 for genome/comparative mapping, and phylogenetics of
81 closely related species. Many iUPAs have been tested in
82 various solanaceous species as well as coffee, and primer
83 sequences, PCR conditions and product sizes are
86 <p><em>Exonic UPA</em>S (eUPA) amplify at least 400bp exonic
87 sequences with/without an intervening intron and hence
88 are useful for phylogenetics of distantly related
89 species. Some eUPAs have been tested in various
90 solanaceous species as well as coffee, and primer
91 sequences, PCR conditions and product sizes are
94 <h4>How to read COSII marker information pages</h4>
96 <p>Arabidopsis CDS is not edited. The unigenes were
97 edited based on their alignment with the CDS, by trimming
98 the UTRs and correcting sequencing errors. Peptide
99 sequence is translated from from edited sequence in frame
100 1 (for unigenes) or downloaded from <a href=
101 "http://www.arabidopsis.org">TAIR</a> (for Arabidopsis).
102 Intron locations of unigenes were predicted from
103 alignment with the Arabidopsis CDS, whose intron
104 locations were downloaded from <a href=
105 "http://www.arabidopsis.org">TAIR</a>. "=====" indicates
106 introns from <a href=
107 "http://www.arabidopsis.org">TAIR</a> (for Arabidopsis)
108 or predicted intron location in the sequence (for
111 <h4>Functional annotation of COSII genes</h4>
113 <p>Each of the COSII genes was assigned a functional
114 annotation based on the <a href=
115 "http://www.arabidopsis.org/info/ontologies/go/">Gene
116 Ontology (GO) annotation</a> of the matching Arabidopsis
119 <h4>Mapping PCR-based COSII markers in major solanaceous
122 <p>All mapped COSII markers can be found in these
123 <a href="/search/markers/markersearch.pl?submit=search&types=COSII&mapped=on">
124 marker search results</a>.</p>
126 <h4>Complete listing of COSII genes</h4>
128 <p>Complete listings of COSII genes and markers can be
129 found in our <a href=
130 "/search/markers/markersearch.pl?submit=search&types=COSII">marker
131 search results</a> or in this <a href="/documents/markers/cosii.xls">.xls
132 spreadsheet</a>. The spreadsheet is sometimes more up-to-date than the search results.
133 Sequence text files and other associated COSII data can be downloaded from our
134 <a href="ftp://ftp.sgn.cornell.edu/COSII/">FTP site</a>.</p>
137 <li><span class="tinytype">Fulton T, van der Hoeven R,
138 Eannetta N, Tanksley S (2002). Identification, Analysis
139 and Utilization of a Conserved Ortholog Set (COS)
140 Markers for Comparative Genomics in Higher Plants. The
141 Plant Cell 14: 1457-1467</span></li>
143 <li><span class="tinytype">Wu F, Mueller LA, Crouzillat D, Petiard V, Tanksley SD (2006).
144 Combining Bioinformatics and Phylogenetics to Identify Large Sets of
145 Single Copy, Orthologous Genes (COSII) for Comparative, Evolutinonary
146 and Systematics Studies: A Test Case in the Euasterid Plant Clade (2006).
147 Genetics, 2006 Nov;174(3):1407-20. <a href="http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/abstract/genetics.106.062455v1">Genetics</a> | <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&term=16951058">PubMed</a> | <a href="ftp://ftp.sgn.cornell.edu/COSII/COSII-Genetics-suppl/">[access supplement information on SGN FTP site]</a>