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INDIVIDUAL normal adult sheep have either a high or low erythrocyte potassium concentration, determined genetically by a simple allelic pair in which the gene for low K is dominant. High potassium (HK) animals have low erythrocyte sodium and low potassium (LK) animals high. Both phenotypes are present, and in all proportions, in 115 of 129 populations listed1.
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HALL, S., HALL, R. & HALL, J. Polymorphism of erythrocyte potassium concentration in seaweed-eating sheep. Nature 255, 62 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255062a0
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