THE P-3 AND EST LOCI IN THE HONEYBEE APIS MELLIFERA
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- 1 December 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 72 (4) , 733-738
- https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/72.4.733
Abstract
Data for Apis mellifera indicate that the P-3 proteins and one esterase enzyme are controlled by two genes, P-3 and Est, with two alleles each. The frequency of the P-3 alleles is different in the two subspecies (adansonii and ligustica), that for P-3F in Italian bees being 46.9% and in African 0.5%. The frequency of EstF is 2.8% in both populations. The Est locus has two codominant alleles and the locus P-3 has two incompletely dominant alleles; the heterozygote P-3S/P-3F shows only an intermediate band. The two loci are not genetically linked.Keywords
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