Isozyme variability in species of the genus Drosophila. III. Qualitative comparison of the esterases of D. aldrichi and D. mulleri (original) (raw)
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Two closely related species, Drosophila aldrichi and D. mulleri, are compared on the basis of their esterase isozyme patterns after starch gel electrophoresis. Comparable esterases between the two species are identified by substrate specificity, inhibition, and enhancement of esterase activity by various agents. The extensive electrophoretic variability of most of the esterases in nature is described and data relating to the inheritance of the various enzyme forms are presented.
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- Genetics Foundation, Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
F. M. Johnson, R. H. Richardson & M. P. Kambysellis
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- F. M. Johnson
- R. H. Richardson
- M. P. Kambysellis
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This work was supported (in part) by a U.S. Public Health Service research grant (GM 11609 to W. S. Stone and M. R. Wheeler) and a training grant (2 T1-GM 337-07 to R. P. Wagner et al.) from the National Institutes of Health.
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Johnson, F.M., Richardson, R.H. & Kambysellis, M.P. Isozyme variability in species of the genus Drosophila. III. Qualitative comparison of the esterases of D. aldrichi and D. mulleri.Biochem Genet 1, 239–247 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485179
- Received: 22 March 1967
- Revised: 07 September 1967
- Issue date: January 1968
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485179