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Electrophoretic variation ascribable to three protein-coding loci, coding for glutamine synthetase (GS), uridine monophosphate kinase (UMPK), and transferrin (Tf), was observed in three species of fish of the genus Xiphophorus. Electrophoretic patterns in interspecific F1 hybrid heterozygotes suggested monomeric subunit structures of UMPK and Tf and a multimeric structure of undetermined subunit number of GS. Linkage analyses in backcross hybrids indicated a recombination map of GS-0%-Tf-10.8%-UMPK. This group (designated Xiphophorus linkage group VI) was shown to assort independently from the 14 enzyme loci assigned to linkage groups I–V and from 19 other informative markers within the limits of the data.
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This investigation was supported by Grant CA-28909, awarded by the National Cancer Institute, USPHS.
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Morizot, D.C., Greenspan, J.A. & Siciliano, M.J. Linkage group VI of fish of the genus Xiphophorus (Poeciliidae): Assignment of genes coding for glutamine synthetase, uridine monophosphate kinase, and transferrin. Biochem Genet 21, 1041–1049 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00483958
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