title: Genetics of lucilin, a storage protein from the sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina (Calliphoridae).
abstract: Lucilin, the main storage protein of larval fat body and hemolymph in the sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina, has been isolated as a series of trimers composed of subunits of 83,000 +/- 5%, daltons. Extensive electrophoretically detectable polymorphism of lucilin subunit patterns occurs in wild and laboratory populations of Lucilia; from four to nine bands are seen in any one individual. Evidence from genetic, electrophoretic, immunological, and structural studies suggests the existence of a series of 12 or more closely related structural loci (designated Luc-1 to Luc-12) which may have arisen through gene duplication. Codominant allelic variation has been found at several of these loci. Luc-1 and Luc-3, and probably the other structural loci of the series, are located on chromosome 2.
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000032:analysis; D000483:Alleles; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D004175:Diptera / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D005796:Genes; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005838:Genotype; D006458:Hemolymph / Q000032:analysis; D006579:Heterozygote; D006720:Homozygote; D007814:Larva; D008297:Male; D010641:Phenotype; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D011506:Proteins / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D011506:Proteins