Unequal thermostability of allelic forms of malate dehydrogenase in honey bees.
Author(s)
Jean-Marie Cornuet; Benjamin P Oloroyd; Ross H Crozier
Abstract
Cytosolic malate dehydrogenase (MDH, EC 1.1.1.37), an enzyme involved in basic metabolism, has proved to be the most informative allozyme marker for honey bee (Apis mellifera) population genetics studies. The geographic distribution of its three common alleles, which we will refer to as 'fast' (F), 'medium' (M) and 'slow' (S), broadly reflects the partition of this species into the three main lineages infered from biometry (Ruttner, 1988) and confirmed with mtDNA (Garnery et al., 1992).
