Genetics of lucilin, a storage protein from the sheep blowfly,Lucilia cuprina(Calliphoridae)

✍ Scribed by John A. Thomson; Karen R. Radok; Denis C. Shaw; Maxwell J. Whitten; Geoffrey G. Foster; L. Michael Birt

• Book ID: 104784335
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 895 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-2928
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00484881

✦ Synopsis

Lucilin, the main storage protein of larval fat body and hemolymph in the sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina, has been isolated as a series of trimers composed of subunits of 83,000 +/- 5%, daltons. Extensive electrophoretically detectable polymorphism of lucilin subunit patterns occurs in wild and laboratory populations of Lucilia; from four to nine bands are seen in any one individual. Evidence from genetic, electrophoretic, immunological, and structural studies suggests the existence of a series of 12 or more closely related structural loci (designated Luc-1 to Luc-12) which may have arisen through gene duplication. Codominant allelic variation has been found at several of these loci. Luc-1 and Luc-3, and probably the other structural loci of the series, are located on chromosome 2.