X-linkage of malic enzyme in Anopheles culicifacies species B |
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Authors: | T Adak S K Subbarao V P Sharma S R Rao |
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Affiliation: | Malaria Research Centre, Delhi, India. |
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Abstract: | A survey for malic enzyme (Me) in laboratory strains of species A and species B of Anopheles culicifacies had uncovered two electrophoretic variants, slow and fast, in two strains of species B. Genetic analysis revealed the two variants to be codominant alleles segregating at a locus, Me, which is sex linked. Because of the XX-XY sex determining mechanism, in F1 females, two electromorphs, viz., slow and fast, were observed, whereas in males only one electromorph of maternal origin was seen. Linkage experiments with another X-linked mutant, white eye (w), indicated the map distance between the two loci to be 9.52 +/- 0.86. |
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