THE P-3 AND EST LOCI IN THE HONEYBEE APIS MELLIFERA | Zendy

Moacyr Antônio Mestriner | Zendy; Eucléia Primo Betioli Contel | Zendy

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THE P-3 AND EST LOCI IN THE HONEYBEE APIS MELLIFERA

Author(s) -

Moacyr Antônio Mestriner,

Eucléia Primo Betioli Contel

Publication year - 1972

Publication title -

genetics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.792

H-Index - 246

eISSN - 1943-2631

pISSN - 0016-6731

DOI - 10.1093/genetics/72.4.733

Subject(s) - biology , allele , locus (genetics) , genetics , subspecies , heterozygote advantage , gene , esterase , allele frequency , enzyme , zoology , biochemistry

Data for Apis mellifera indicate that the P-3 proteins and one esterase enzyme are controlled by two genes, P-3 and Est, with two alleles each. The frequency of the P-3 alleles is different in the two subspecies (adansonii and ligustica), that for P-3(F) in Italian bees being 46.9% and in African 0.5%. The frequency of Est(F) is 2.8% in both populations. The Est locus has two codominant alleles and the locus P-3 has two incompletely dominant alleles; the heterozygote P-3( S)/P-3(F) shows only an intermediate band. The two loci are not genetically linked.

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