Worm Breeder's Gazette 10(1): 16
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The unc-30 gene has been found to lie on the physical map, in a contig previously shown by J. Yuan to span the ced-3 locus(CSH 1987). unc-30 recombinants were picked from the progeny of unc-31(e928)unc- 30(e191)/BO parents and used to map BO/N2 DNA polymorphisms found in the ced-3 contig. The data indicate that unc-30 is surprisingly close to ced-3.Two polymorphisms have been mapped. They have been designated eP56 and eP57, and are recognized by hybridization with the cosmids ZK987 and C43A2, respectively. They map as follows: unc- 31[8]eP56[4]ePS[1]unc-30. A right-hand limit on the position of unc- 30 has been established by Yuan. She has mapped a BO-specific Tc1 to the right of ced-3 in the cosmid MMMC1. The physical distance between unc-30 and ced-3 must therefore be less than 120kb of DNA; the genetic distance between them is 0.3-0.5%. It should now be possible to clone the unc-30 gene. Attempts toward this end have been hampered by the potpourri of repeat sequences in cosmids to the right of eP57. Several DNA polymorphisms have been found in EMS, [32P], and spontaneous BO unc-30 alleles.