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Using the old-fashioned technique starch gel electrophoresis of native proteins, I have identified several species of invertebrates with allozyme clines associated with temperature for the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (GPI). I will next sequence the coding regions of the Gpi genes in these species to see whether the amino acid differences between the warm-associated and cool-associated allozymes are similar across different species.
Two species of bay mussels occur in the Salish Sea and elsewhere on the Pacific coast: Mytilus galloprovincialis, which was accidentally introduced from Europe, and the native Mytilus trossulus. These species are both commercially and ecologically important, but researchers generally have to use genetic characters (allozymes or DNA markers) to tell them apart, because the morphological differences in their shells are very subtle (McDonald et al. 1991). Researchers in the northwestern Pacific have described some shell characters that appear to be useful for telling M. galloprovincialis from M. galloprovincialis; I will collect local mussels from mixed populations, identify them using DNA markers, then see whether the species can be reliably identified using shell characters. This research is not conceptually exciting, but the results could be quite useful to both marine biologists and aquaculturists.
Using the old-fashioned technique starch gel electrophoresis of native proteins, I have identified several species of invertebrates with allozyme clines associated with temperature for the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (GPI). I will next sequence the coding regions of the Gpi genes in these species to see whether the amino acid differences between the warm-associated and cool-associated allozymes are similar across different species.
Two species of bay mussels occur in the Salish Sea and elsewhere on the Pacific coast: Mytilus galloprovincialis, which was accidentally introduced from Europe, and the native Mytilus trossulus. These species are both commercially and ecologically important, but researchers generally have to use genetic characters (allozymes or DNA markers) to tell them apart, because the morphological differences in their shells are very subtle (McDonald et al. 1991). Researchers in the northwestern Pacific have described some shell characters that appear to be useful for telling M. galloprovincialis from M. galloprovincialis; I will collect local mussels from mixed populations, identify them using DNA markers, then see whether the species can be reliably identified using shell characters. This research is not conceptually exciting, but the results could be quite useful to both marine biologists and aquaculturists.
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