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Unusual isozyme patterns of glucose-6-phosphate isomerase in polydorids (Polychaeta: Spionidae) and the possible mechanisms of their formation

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The isozyme patterns of glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (GPI) have been analyzed in ten species of polychaetes of the genera Polydora and Dipolydora (Polychaeta: Spionidae). The GPI patterns of these species have been found to have some specific characteristics that cannot be explained in terms of the generally accepted views on the nature of isozymes. The patterns are represented by two hybridizing isozymes with different expression specificities that exhibit coordinated allozymic variation in most individuals of each species studied. Involvement of alternative splicing in the expression of the GPI gene is considered to be the most probable mechanism of the formation of the unusual GPI isozyme patterns in polydorids.

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Original Russian Text © V.V. Pankova, G.P. Manchenko, 2009, published in Genetika, 2009, Vol. 45, No. 8, pp. 1087–1095.

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Pankova, V.V., Manchenko, G.P. Unusual isozyme patterns of glucose-6-phosphate isomerase in polydorids (Polychaeta: Spionidae) and the possible mechanisms of their formation. Russ J Genet 45, 953–960 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795409080092

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