BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS OF TRICHIURUS-LEPTURUS AND T-JAPONICUS (PERCIFORMES, TRICHIURIDAE) FROM TAIWAN STRAIT

Authors
LEE SC TSOI SCM CHAO WC
Citation
Sc. Lee et al., BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS OF TRICHIURUS-LEPTURUS AND T-JAPONICUS (PERCIFORMES, TRICHIURIDAE) FROM TAIWAN STRAIT, Zeitschrift fur zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung, 31(3), 1993, pp. 227-232
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
Zeitschrift fur zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung → ACNP
ISSN journal
00443808
Volume
31
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
227 - 232
Database
ISI
SICI code
0044-3808(1993)31:3<227:BSOTAT>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Two morphological different species of hairtails, Trichiurus lepturus and T. japonicus were compared by starch gel electrophoresis. Isozyme patterns of eight metabolic enzymes and general muscle proteins using extracts of eye, muscle, liver and heart revealed 16 loci. The polymor phic loci were sAAT-1, GPI-A, GPI-B, IDHP-1 and PGM-2 for at least one of the two species. There were no fixed allelic isozyme patterns to d ifferentiate among them. NEI's genetic identity (I) between the two sp ecies was calculated. An I index of 0.986 suggests that two morphologi cally different hairtails belong to the same species, Trichiurus leptu rus.