atlantic cod (gadus morhua) hemoglobin genes multiplicity and polymorphism大西洋鳕鱼(gadus morhua)血红蛋白基因多样性和多态性.pdfVIP

BMC Genetics BioMed Central Research article Open Access Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) hemoglobin genes: multiplicity and polymorphism 1 1 2 1 Tudor Borza* , Cynthia Stone , A Kurt Gamperl and Sharen Bowman* Address: 1Genome Atlantic, NRC Institute for Marine Biosciences, 1411 Oxford Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 3Z1, Canada and 2Ocean Sciences Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, NL, A1C 5S7 Canada Email: Tudor Borza* - tborza@genomeatlantic.ca; Cynthia Stone - cstone@genomeatlantic.ca; A Kurt Gamperl - kgamperl@mun.ca; Sharen Bowman* - sbowman@genomeatlantic.ca * Corresponding authors Published: 3 September 2009 Received: 1 June 2009 Accepted: 3 September 2009 BMC Genetics 2009, 10:51 doi:10.1186/1471-2156-10-51 This article is available from: /1471-2156/10/51 © 2009 Borza et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Hemoglobin (Hb) polymorphism, assessed by protein gel electrophoresis, has been used almost exclusively to characterize the genetic structure of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) populations and to establish correlations with phenotypic traits such as Hb oxygen binding capacity, temperature tolerance and growth characteristics. The