Because of its short life-cycle, the apple snail
Pomacea canaliculata is useful as a pilot organism for shellfish studies in fishery genetics and breeding.
Four electrophoretically different phenotypes of leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) were found in the apple snail. The zymogram shows to be under the control of two alleles,
A and a, at the two variant loci,
Lap-2 and
Lap-3, respectively. In both, a stands for the null allele. Different phenotypic frequencies at
Lap-2 and
Lap-3 were observed among the different egg lumps.
Analyzing the presumed parental phenotypes and the phenotypic segregation of their offsprings, the existence of linkage between both loci,
Lap-2 and
Lap-3, were revealed. Calculating the recombination frequency between both 5.7% was obtained.
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