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Inheritance studies of glucose phosphate isomerase, transferrin and esterases in the Australian hopping mice Notomys alexis, N. cervinus, N. mitchellii and N. fuscus (Rodentia: Muridae)
Author(s) -
Baverstock P. R.,
Watts C. H. S.,
Cole S. R.
Publication year - 1977
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.1365-2052.1977.tb01617.x
Subject(s) - biology , mendelian inheritance , genetics , allele , zoology , esterase , transferrin , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , biochemistry , gene , enzyme
Summary Electrophoretic variation in glucose phosphate isomerase was found in N. alexis, N. cervinus and N. fuscus. Inheritance was apparently Mendelian with two co‐dominant alleles; heterozygotes possessed a triple‐banded phenotype. High intra‐specific electrophoretic variability was found in all species for transferrin. Most of the variation was attributable to variation in the number of attached moieties, probably sialic acid. In N. alexis however, a second pattern of transferrin variation was found that followed a Mendelian pattern of codominant inheritance. In all four species, considerable variability was found in three zones of esterase activity, but the pattern of inheritance was not elucidated.