Transitional hemizygosity of the maternally derived allele at the 6PGD locus during early development of the Cyprinid fish Rutilus rutilus
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Abstract
The activation of individual alleles during early embryogenesis was studied at the 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase gene locus of the Cyprinid fish Rutilus by means of starch gel electrophoresis. By using three alleles occurring at this locus, it was possible to discriminate between (1) maternally transmitted gene products stored in the egg cytoplasm, (2) newly synthesized protein of the maternally derived allele in the embryonic genome, and (3) newly synthesized protein of the paternally derived allele. It was found that, until the fifth day of development, maternal products were present in the embryo. By the seventh day after fertilization, these storage products were nearly exhausted, and a hemizygous phenotype for the maternally derived gene became visible. On the eighth day, the patterns of all four allelic combinations of the mating type used were demonstrable in the offspring. The findings suggest that for the alleles used in this study, the maternally derived gene is preferentially activated during embryogenesis.
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