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Blood group complexity: the Pm locus in Peromyscus maniculatus 1
Author(s) -
Savage E.,
Cameron D. G.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
animal blood groups and biochemical genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1365-2052
pISSN - 0003-3480
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2052.1971.tb01192.x
Subject(s) - peromyscus , subspecies , biology , allele , locus (genetics) , antiserum , genetics , antigen , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , zoology
Summary The Pm blood group system in Peromyscus maniculatus was originally described by Rasmussen as consisting of two co‐dominant alleles, Pm A and Pm B , responsible for the antigenic characteristics A and B. This paper describes two additional antisera, anti‐C and anti‐X, which expand this system and show it to be serologically complex. Anti‐X is comprised of antibodies directed against at least two antigenic characteristics X‘ and X“. Four and possibly six alleles are described by the four antisera. Different subspecies exhibit different spectra of alleles at the Pm locus. A segregation distortion is evidenced.