Genic Variation in Raccoons, Procyon lotor

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Abstract
Protein variation, levels of heterozygosity, and interlocality genic variation were studied in the raccoon, Procyon lotor, using starch gel electrophoresis. Specimens were examined from Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. Six of 24 loci were found to be polymorphic; average heterozygosity (H̄ = 2.8%) was relatively low for a mammal. Analyses of data as five and 12 groups yielded genetic similarity coefficients of 0.984 and 0.946, respectively. These notable similarity values indicate P. lotor to be genetically similar throughout the area studied.