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Science 24 December 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3704, pp. 1737 - 1738
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3704.1737
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Sex-Linkage of Erythrocyte Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase in Two Species of Wild Hares

Susumu Ohno 1, Jackie Poole 1, and Ingemar Gustavsson 2

1 Department of Biology, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California
2 Department of Animal Nutrition, Genetics, and Hygiene, Royal Veterinary College, Stockholm, Sweden

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase specific to the erythrocytes of each of two wild hares found in Europe was discerned by starch-gel electrophoresis at pH 7.0 and pH 8.6. The single, sharp band of the dehydrogenase of Lepus europaeus was faster than that of L. timidus, at both pH levels. The sex-linkage of this enzyme was tested through reciprocal hybrids between the two species. Each male hybrid had a single band of enzyme identical with that of its mother, while both parental types of this enzyme coexisted in female hybrids. Thus, sex-linkage of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase has been suggested not only in man and in the family Equidae, but now in the family Leporidae of placental mammals as well.


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