INTERSPECIES RELATIONSHIPS IN THE PARAMECIUM-AURELIA COMPLEX - ACID-PHOSPHATASE VARIATION
INTERSPECIES RELATIONSHIPS IN THE PARAMECIUM-AURELIA COMPLEX - ACID-PHOSPHATASE VARIATION
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1550-7408.1983.tb01048.x
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
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RUSHFORD, CL
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ALLEN, SL;ADAMS, J;RUSHFORD, CL
Up to 5 zones of acid phosphatase activity appear in gels after electrophoresis of detergent-treated extracts from 13 of the 14 spp. of the P. aurelia complex. The overall pattern is somewhat similar for all species: differences in intensity and mobility of individual zones permit the grouping of these sibling species into 8 groups. All 14 spp. can be identified using the procedure of enzyme electrophoresis, although 2 of them are more similar than is usually the case. Problems of misclassification are discussed in terms of the nature and frequency of variants. With the judicious choice of enzymes used to screen new stocks, these problems can be circumvented. Species relationships are updated using 11 enzymes. A dendrogram constructed from the matrix of genetic distances shows 4 clusters of species: (i) P. biaurelia, P. triaurelia; (ii) P. primaurelia, P. pentaurelia, P. sexaurelia, P. novaurelia; (iii) P. septaurelia, P. undecaurelia, P. tredecaurelia, P. quadecaurelia; and (iv) P. tetraurelia, P. octaurelia, P. decaurelia, P. dodecaurelia. Distances between the species are large, on the order of the differences between Drosophila spp. The species are characterized by an extraordinary lack of geographical differentiation and great morphological similarity, which contrasts strongly with the molecular differentiation.