title: Biochemical polymorphism of starry flounder, Platichthys stellatus, from the northwestern and northeastern Pacific Ocean.
abstract: Three enzyme systems, MDH, PGM and AGPDH, were investigated in starry flounder collected from off northwestern Hokkaido Island, Japan; western Kamchatka; USSR; Puget Sound, Washington, USA; and Yaquina Bay, Oregon, USA. Significant differences in MDH allele distribution were found between the Asian-Puget Sound and Yaquina Bay-Puget Sound samples suggesting that this system may be useful to separate different population units. The allele frequencies of MDH and PGM did not show significant variation with body length and handedness in starry flounder collected from Puget Sound, Washington, and did not support the hypothesis of differential viability between dextral and sinistrial forms of starry flounder.
mesh_terms: D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D005399:Fishes / Q000378:metabolism*; D005993:Glycerolphosphate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D008291:Malate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D010641:Phenotype; D010733:Phosphoglucomutase / Q000378:metabolism*; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic
chemical_list: D005993:Glycerolphosphate Dehydrogenase; D008291:Malate Dehydrogenase; D010733:Phosphoglucomutase