The Characterization Of Arabms1 - An Arabidopsis-Thaliana Sequence Homologous To Bacteriophage-M13 Repeat Element

A genomic DNA fragment was isolated from the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana via hybridization with bacteriophage M13 protein III repeat element. A 45 bp region of the A. thaliana DNA fragment has a repeating 12 bp structure that shows sequence homology to both the M13 repeat and to a rice minisatellite-like element. Hybridization of digests of A. thaliana genomic DNA with the minisatellite DNA generates a multilocus DNA fingerprint with low polymorphism.