1. Sequence and analysis of chromosome 3 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana
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Jean Weissenbach, William C. Nierman, Christopher D. Town, A Perez-Perez, R. Cooke, Brian J. Haas, Samir Kaul, T Kato, Claire Fujii, J Militscher, Mitsuyo Kohara, Steven L. Salzberg, A Conrad, Hans-Werner Mewes, D. Haase, M. Scharfe, S Bangert, Hean L. Koo, W. Ansorge, Laurence Cattolico, Patrick Wincker, Rama Maiti, Marcel Salanoubat, Erika Asamizu, Bénédicte Purnelle, Luke J. Tallon, M flores, Grace Pai, P Brottier, Kumi Idesawa, Richard Holland, P Sellers, J C Venter, S Nakayama, Michela D'Angelo, Holger Erfle, Berthold Fartmann, Ai Matsuno, Elena Casacuberta, Barbara Simionati, T Wada, R Wiedelmann, Amparo Monfort, Chiaki Kiyokawa, M. Rizzo, Jeremy Peterson, D. Vitale, Joan Climent, M. Schäfer, C Takeuchi, Gertrud Mannhaupt, Terrance Shea, P Navarro, Gerald Nyakatura, Pere Puigdomènech, R Mache, Leslie A. Grivell, S. van Aken, Paolo Zaccaria, Stephen Rudd, H. Voss, B Ottenwälder, Todd Creasy, J Reichelt, C Berger-Llauro, M Laudie, K Hornischer, H Drzonek, J P Alcaraz, Kai Lemcke, M Unseld, N Jordan, C Robert, Shusei Sato, T Kimura, S Müller-Auer, Naomi Nakazaki, W Saurin, Daphne Preuss, M. de Haan, J Jenkins, Francis Quetier, D Duchemin, Xiaoying Lin, Alberto Pallavicini, A Watanabe, Petra Brandt, Klaus F. X. Mayer, Heiko Schoof, M Yamada, Javier Terol, Satoshi Tabata, Benes, John Gill, François Artiguenave, Yoshie Kishida, Nathalie Choisne, O Schön, C. Gabel, E Wurmbach, Michael A. Rieger, Alessandro Vezzi, T Kaneko, T. H. Löhnert, Owen White, G Kauer, M Matsumoto, M. Fuchs, A Walts, G Nordsiek, Michel Delseny, Shigemi Sasamoto, H Kranz, Rosario Liguori, Yasukazu Nakamura, David Masuy, H. Blöcker, De Simone, Miho Yasuda, Tamara Feldblyum, B. Obermaier, Giorgio Valle, Manuel Pérez-Alonso, Sayaka Shinpo, Kumiko Kawashima, A Cottet, Anagnostis Argiriou, T Rooney, A.C. Maarse, Dongying Wu, C Collado, T. Utterback, Claire M. Fraser, M. D. Bargues, Stefano Toppo, Marc Boutry, Akiko Muraki, Salanoubat, M., Lemcke, K., Rieger, M., Ansorge, W., Unseld, M., Fartmann, B., Valle, G., Blocker, H., Perezalonso, M., Obermaier, B., Delseny, M., Boutry, M., Grivell, L. A., Mache, R., Puigdomenech, P., DE SIMONE, V., Choisne, N., Artiguenave, F., Robert, C., Brottier, P., Wincker, P., Cattolico, L., Weissenbach, J., Saurin, W., Quetier, F., Schafer, M., Mullerauer, S., Gabel, C., Fuchs, M., Benes, V., Wurmbach, E., Drzonek, H., Erfle, H., Jordan, N., Bangert, S., Wiedelmann, R., Kranz, H., Voss, H., Holland, R., Brandt, P., Nyakatura, G., Vezzi, A., D'Angelo, M., Pallavicini, Alberto, Toppo, S., Simionati, B., Conrad, A., Hornischer, K., Kauer, G., Lohnert, T. H., Nordsiek, G., Reichelt, J., Scharfe, M., Schon, O., Bargues, M., Terol, J., Climent, J., Navarro, P., Collado, C., Perezperez, A., Ottenwalder, B., Duchemin, D., Cooke, R., Laudie, M., Bergerllauro, C., Purnelle, B., Masuy, D., DE HAAN, M., Maarse, A. C., Alcaraz, J. P., Cottet, A., Casacuberta, E., Monfort, A., Argiriou, A., Flores, M., Liguori, R., Vitale, D., Mannhaupt, G., Haase, D., and Schoof, H.
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DNA, Plant ,Sequence analysis ,Arabidopsis ,plant ,Genome ,Complete sequence ,Gene Duplication ,Centromere ,Plant genomics ,model organism ,Humans ,genomic structure ,Gene ,Plant Proteins ,Genetics ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,Chromosome ,Chromosome Mapping ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,biology.organism_classification ,genome sequencing ,Chromosome 3 ,Genome, Plant - Abstract
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.
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- 2000