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AN extensive polymorphism of transferrin, the iron binding protein of plasma, has been detected among rhesus monkeys and other macaques1–5. In previous work5, 19 phenotypes due to different combinations of nine molecular forms of transferrin could be distinguished by starch-gel electrophoresis. Additional transferrin variations have now been discovered (Goodman, M., unpublished data), and there are at least 28 phenotypes and 11 molecular forms of transferrin present in the genus Macaca, the rhesus group alone showing 21 of these phenotypes and 9 of these transferrins.
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GOODMAN, M., WOLF, R. Inheritance of Serum Transferrins in Rhesus Monkeys. Nature 197, 1128 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1971128a0
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