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PREVIOUS electrophoretic studies of the serum proteins of the chicken have utilized moving boundary1–5, paper6,7, or starch-gel8,9 techniques, the latter with ‘continuous’ borate buffer. Differences between individual sera were reported dependent variously on sex1,2,6, onset of maturity and egg-laying4,7,8, treatment with sex hormones4,6, or stage of embryonic development3,5,7,9; but no inherited differences were found. Using horizontal starch-gel olectrophoresis in the Poulik10 discontinuous buffer system, both Lush11 and ourselves have obtained considerably improved resolution of the zones. The former11 confirmed and extended previous knowledge of variation dependent on sex and egg-laying, but did not find inherited variation among the sera of 66 chickens of various breeds. We have found inherited variation on one breed out of several studied, and have also found parallel inherited variation in egg-white protein.
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OGDEN, A., MORTON, J., GILMOUR, D. et al. Inherited Variants in the Transferrins and Conalbumins of the Chicken. Nature 195, 1026–1028 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1951026b0
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