Species Specificity of Fish Mucus (original) (raw)

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CHROMATOGRAPHIC methods have not been used widely in the taxonomic study of fishes. Buzzati-Traverso and Rechnitzer1 claimed to have shown that geographical races of marine fishes could be separated by using paper chromatography to analyse muscle-squashes with ninhydrin and fluorescent methods. Later Dannevig2, using ninhydrin-stained chromatograms of fresh muscle squashes, found specific differences between various species of Gadidæ, Clupeidæ and Pleuronectidæ. Deep water and inshore forms of Gadus morrhuae were found to be separable.

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  1. Department of Zoology, University College, Cork,
    J. M. BARRY & FERGUS J. O'ROURKE

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  1. J. M. BARRY
  2. FERGUS J. O'ROURKE

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BARRY, J., O'ROURKE, F. Species Specificity of Fish Mucus.Nature 184, 2039 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1842039a0

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