Genetic studies of free-ranging macaques of Cayo Santiago I. Description of the population and some nonpolymorphic red cell enzymes
✍ Scribed by John Buettner-janusch; Marlene Sockol
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 277 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Phenotypes of eight red cell enzymes at nine genetic loci were determined in the semi‐free‐ranging population of rhesus macaques,Macaca mulatta, that inhabit Cayo Santiago. The following enzymes were examined electrophoretically: adenosine deaminase, glucose‐6‐phosphate dehydrogenase, glyceraldehyde‐3‐phosphate dehydrogenase, indophenol oxidase, lactate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, phosphoglucomutase‐1, phosphoglucomutase‐2, and purine nucleoside phosphorylase. Hemolysates from at least 372 animals were analyzed, and no variants of the enzymes were observed with the exception of malate dehydrogenase. Three animals displaying a variant form of malate dehydrogenase were found.