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ELECTROPHORETIC ANALYSIS OF SOLUBLE ENZYMES IN FIVE FRESHWATER DINOFLAGELLATE SPECIES |
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| Authors: | B. A. Hayhome Lois A. Pfiester |
| Affiliation: | Department of Biology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, 68182 Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019 |
| Abstract: | Electrophoretic analysis of 11 different clonal freshwater Peridinium isolates shows that currently used morphological taxonomic criteria are conservative measures of relatedness and that the presence or absence of an apical pore is an important taxonomic feature. Correlation of malate dehydrogenase and glutamate dehydrogenase isoenzyme patterns with chromosome number variations among our isolates lends no support to polyploidy as a speciation mechanism. |
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