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THE study of animal hæmoglobin types is developing rapidly and the results obtained in various species have recently been summarized by Huisman, van der Helm, Visser and van Vliet1. However, the electrophoretic mobility of hippopotamus hæmoglobin does not seem to have been studied before, possibly because of scarcity of materials. We have had the opportunity to examine hæmoglobin samples from the East African hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius L.2, obtained during a controlled reduction in a hippopotamus population.
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ROLLINSON, D., LOMAX, G. Paper Electrophoresis of Hippopotamus Hæmoglobin. Nature 184, 1653–1654 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841653a0
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