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Electrophoretic variants of serum transferrin in wild pig populations of Japan
Author(s) -
KUROSAWA Y.,
TANAKA K.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
animal genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1365-2052
pISSN - 0268-9146
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2052.1988.tb00785.x
Subject(s) - biology , transferrin , subspecies , phenotype , electrophoresis , population , domestic pig , genetics , gene , zoology , biochemistry , demography , sociology , forestry , geography
Summary. Variants of serum transferrin in Japanese wild pig, Sus scrofa leucomystax, and Ryukyu wild pig, S.s. riukiuanus, of Japan were investigated by using starch gel electrophoresis. Five phenotypes, TfB, BC, C, CX and X, were observed, of which two, TfCX and X, are new variants. Comparison of gene frequency estimates which were calculated for each population showed remarkable geographic differences among several populations of these two subspecies.