On the nonidentity of several carnivore hemoglobins

✍ Scribed by Vincent M. Sarich

• Book ID: 104784292
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 296 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-2928
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00484824

✦ Synopsis

Antibodies were prepared in rabbits to the hemoglobin of the dog (Canis familiaris). Each of the major adult hemoglobins of several canoid and pinniped species was eompared to that of the dog using these antibodies' in the microcomplement fixation (MC'F) procedure. Each non-Canis hemoglobin tested reacted less well than that of the dog, and each cross-reaction value was unique. The hypothesis of Seal (1969) of identity of primary structure among these hemoglobins is thus made highly suspect.