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Cyst Membrane Protein Composition as a Discriminant Character in the Genus Artemia. (International Study on Artemia LV)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

T.J. Abatzopoulos
Affiliation:
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Sciences, School of Biology, Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, GR-540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece.
G.V. Triantaphyllidis
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Aquaculture and ARC, University of Ghent, Rozier 44, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
J.A. Beardmore
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea, SA2 8PP
P. Sorgeloos
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Aquaculture and ARC, University of Ghent, Rozier 44, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.

Extract

Isolated embryonic membranes (i.e. the outer cuticular membrane, the fibrous layer, the inner cuticular membrane and the hatching membrane) and homogenates of incubated, decapsulated cysts of 16 populations from five Artemia species (Crustacea, Anostraca) were examined by sodium dodecyl-sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Characteristic differences in major polypeptides between 45 and 205 kD were seen. These differences might be used as markers for identification of different Artemia species. The validity of this approach in characterizing Artemia populations is discussed.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1997

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