A search for gametic disequilibrium in the plaice, Pleuronectes platessa
In: Heredity. The Genetical Society of Great Britain: London. ISSN 0018-067X; e-ISSN 1365-2540, more
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- Ward, R.D.
- McAndrew, B.J.
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Abstract |
Large samples of a natural population of the plaice (P. platessa) were examined for evidence of gametic disequilibrium (D) at five and seven polymorphic enzyme loci (younger and older fish respectively). A single pairwise locus comparison gave a statistically significant value for D: alpha Gpdh -1 and Pgi -2 in young fish. The mean D values of the 10 pairwise comparisons of the five loci in young and old fish were low, 0.00175 and 0.00420 respectively: corresponding values of R (the correlation of gene frequencies) were 0.01473 and 0.03002. The increase in these parameters in older fish might be due either to population admixture, natural selection, a smaller sample size, or to a combination of these factors. The mean D and R values for the 21 pairwise comparisons of the seven loci typed in older fish were 0 multiplied by 00394 and 0 multiplied by 02496 respectively. Two loci catalysing adjacent steps in the glycolytic pathway, Pgm -1 and Pgi -2, showed no evidence of epistatic interactions generating disequilibrium. |
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