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No preferential activation of the maternally derived alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) allele was found in any of the chicken ♂ × Japanese quail ♀ hybrids examined. ADH activity in the liver was, in fact, found to exist in two different cathodal zonal regions on starch gel electropherograms; the zone II bands appeared at day 5 of incubation in the quail embryo (day 6 in the hybrid embryo) and the zone I bands appeared in 9-day quail embryos (10-day hybrid embryos). By day 13 of incubation, only the faster-migrating zone I bands could be detected in both quail and hybrid embryos.
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Research supported by National Research Council of Canada, Grant No. A6802.
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LeVine, J.P., Haley, L.E. Gene activation of alcohol dehydrogenase in Japanese quail and chicken-quail hybrid embryos. Biochem Genet 13, 435–446 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485786
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