GENETICS OF HEMOGLOBIN IN THE DEER MOUSE, PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS . I. MULTIPLE - AND ß-GLOBIN STRUCTURAL LOCI

Lee R. G. Snyder ¹

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305andDepartment of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521

Genetic data, together with molecular structure studies, have demonstrated that the complex hemoglobin phenotypes in four subspecies of P. maniculatus are generated by at least four, and probably five, globin structural loci. The Hba and Hbc loci apparently arose by duplication of an ancestral -type locus, while Hbb, Hbd, and Hbe apparently were derived from a ß-type locus. The Hba and Hbb structural loci are electrophoretically monomorphic, while Hbc, Hbd, and Hbe are each polymorphic for at least two electrophoretic alleles. Alleles at Hbc and Hbd segregate independently. The globin products of Hbc and Hbd are electrophoretically indistinguishable; therefore, it is impossible to enumerate true gene frequencies in population surveys. Combined evidence from Peromyscus, Mus and Rattus indicates a remarkable similarity in the numbers of duplicated globin structural loci and in their linkage relationships to coat color loci.

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