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Science 31 May 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3831, pp. 1004 - 1005
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3831.1004
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Lactate Dehydrogenase Isozymes in Parthenogenetic Teiid Lizards (Cnemidophorus)

William B. Neaves 1 and Park S. Gerald 2

1 Department of Anatomy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
2 Departmnent of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston

Heterozygosity occurs at the lactate dehydrogenase b-locus in two diploid parthenogenetic species of Cnemidophorus. Each such species produces two different B subunits, one of which is also found in two sexual species and in two triploid parthenogenetic species; the other occurs also in a third sexual species. Interspecific hybridization between sexual species carrying different b-alleles and producing different B subunits may be responsible for the heterozygosity at the lactate dehydrogenase b-locus in diploid parthenogenetic Cnemidophours.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Parthenogenetic Lizards.
P. E. VANZOLINI (1978)
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Gene Dosage at the Lactate Dehydrogenase b Locus in Triploid and Diploid Teiid Lizards.
W. B. Neaves and P. S. Gerald (1969)
Science 164, 557-559
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