Red cell lactic acid dehydrogenase in the family Macropodidae

✍ Scribed by Peggy Clark

• Book ID: 104785140
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 242 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-2928
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00486081

✦ Synopsis

Lactic acid dehydrogenase isoenzyme patterns from red cells of members of the family Macropodidae are described as they appear in disc acrylamide gels. The reproducibility of patterns, which are determined by the relative intensities of LDH isoenzymes, is noted. Of the 473 animals tested, 471 had red cell LDH patterns belonging to one of five patterns. The distribution of these five patterns among the different genera and species is discussed, and it is suggested that investigation of LDH patterns by this method might assist in the classification of members of the family Maeropodidae.