Blood-protein polymorphism in the Japanese cats.
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Genetics Society of Japan in The Japanese Journal of Genetics
- Vol. 60 (5) , 425-439
- https://doi.org/10.1266/jjg.60.425
Abstract
Blood samples were collected from "alley" or feral populations of cats in four perfectures of Japan, and genetic variation at 31 blood-protein loci were examined by starch-gel electrophoreses. The proportion of polymorphic loci and the average heterozygosity were estimated as 0.2580 .apprx. 0.3548 (mean: 0.2903) and 0.0741 .apprx. 0.0917 (mean: 0.0793), respectively. Whereas these values are on a standard level of the genetic variability of domesticated animals, they are conspicuously higher compared with those of such wild mammals as Japanese macaque and Japanese serow. Amount of genetic differentiation among the prefectural populations was evaluated with the FST and GST statistics as 0.0075 and 0.0112, respectively. These values are more than one order lower than those among local subpopulations of the Japanese macaques, suggesting that the gene constitution of Japanese cats are fairly homogenous over the country.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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