Enzyme variation in marine and estuarine populations of a mud crab,Macrophthalmus hirtipes(Ocypodidae)
作者:
F.Y.T. Sin,
M.B. Jones,
期刊:
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
(Taylor Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 17,
issue 4
页码: 367-372
ISSN:0028-8330
年代: 1983
DOI:10.1080/00288330.1983.9516012
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Macrophthalmus hirtipes;mud crab;enzymes;marine environment;estuaries;Ocypodidae;crabs;population genetics;electrophoresis
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Protein and enzyme variation in 2 populations of the mud crabMacrophthalmus hirtipes(Jacquinot, 1853) (Ocypodidae) from 1 marine and 1 estuarine habitat were investigated by poly‐acrylamide gel electrophoresis. A survey of 24 loci revealed that 22 were common to both populations; 20 were monomorphic and 2 were highly polymorphic. Two alleles were detected for each of the polymorphic loci, esterase‐2 (EST‐2) and ester‐ase‐3 (EST‐3). The frequencies of the EST‐3 alleles were similar in the 2 populations. However, the frequencies of the 2 EST‐2 alleles in the estuarine population were significantly different from those for the marine population. Expression of 1 locus, esterase‐4 (EST‐4) was confined to the estuarine population. Two alkaline phosphatase loci (AKPH‐1 and AKPH‐2) were detected in the estuarine population, but only AKPH‐1 was found in the marine population. EST‐4 and AKPH‐2 were neither sex nor age specific. These interpopulational genetic differences may reflect differences in environmental conditions measured between the 2 habitats.
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