Effects of environmental pollution on the rDNAomics of Amazonian fish
2019
Araújo da Silva, Francijara | Feldberg, Eliana | Moura Carvalho, Natália Dayane | Hernández Rangel, Sandra Marcela | Schneider, Carlos Henrique | Carvalho-Zilse, Gislene Almeida | Fonsêca da Silva, Victor | Gross, Maria Claudia
Pollution is a growing environmental problem throughout the world, and the impact of human activities on biodiversity and the genetic variability of natural populations is increasingly preoccupying, given that adaptive processes depend on this variability, in particular that found in the repetitive DNA. In the present study, the mitochondrial DNA (COI) and the distribution of repetitive DNA sequences (18S and 5S rDNA) in the fish genome were analysed in fish populations inhabiting both polluted and unpolluted waters in the northern Amazon basin. The results indicate highly complex ribosomal sequences in the fish genome from the polluted environment because these sequences are involved primarily in the maintenance of genome integrity, mediated by a systematic increase in the number of copies of the ribosomal DNA in response to changes in environmental conditions.
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