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Differences revealed by paper partition chromatography between the gastropod Nassarius reticulatus (L.) and specimens believed to be N. nitida (Jeffreys)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Dorothy M. Collyer
Affiliation:
Fisheries Laboratory, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex

Summary

The ninhydrin-positive patterns produced by chromatography of foot tissue of Nassariics reticulatus from Plymouth and North Wales and of specimens of Nassarius from Essex were established. The similarities and differences between the two are described and the consistent differences found are considered to be indicative of genetic differences between the specimens from Essex and those from the other two areas. The only factor found to affect the otherwise remarkably reproducible pattern given by individuals from the same area was the degree of starvation; the effect was reversible. The pattern given by another marine gastropod, Littorina littorea (L.), is also described. Reference is made to the potentialities of the technique.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1961

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