title: Blood protein polymorphisms in the donkey (Equus asinus).
abstract: Transferrin, albumin, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase and vitamin D-binding protein polymorphisms were detected in 242 feral and domesticated Australian donkeys by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, starch gel electrophoresis, autoradiography, immunoblotting with specific antisera and activity staining. All four TF and two ALB variants were donkey specific while only one of the PGD variants was donkey specific. The two GC variants were electrophoretically identical to the Equus caballus F and S proteins. Available evidence suggested that the TF, ALB, PGD and GC systems are controlled by co-dominant alleles with frequencies of the most common alleles of each system being 0.831, 0.946, 0.957 and 0.861 respectively. Glucose phosphate isomerase and plasminogen were monomorphic in the Australian population of donkeys.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bell
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001797:Blood Protein Electrophoresis; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D018397:Equidae / Q000097:blood* / Q000235:genetics*; D006736:Horses; D006801:Humans; D010734:Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000235:genetics; D013045:Species Specificity; D014168:Transferrin / Q000235:genetics; D014809:Vitamin D-Binding Protein / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D001798:Blood Proteins; D012709:Serum Albumin; D014168:Transferrin; D014809:Vitamin D-Binding Protein; D010734:Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase