Donald JA, Adams MA. An autosomal gene assignment in a marsupial: the gene for LDH-A is on chromosome 5 of the red kangaroo, Macropus rufus.
Biochem Genet 1981;
19:901-8. [PMID:
7332531 DOI:
10.1007/bf00504255]
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Abstract
A number of somatic cell hybrids between red kangaroo (Macropus rufus) and mouse cells, which lose marsupial chromosomes, were found to express the kangaroo form of LDH-A. Concordance between the expression of marsupial LDH-A and the presence of chromosome 5 in the hybrid cells and selected subclones enabled the gene for LDH-A to be assigned to this chromosome. This is the first autosomal gene assignment in a marsupial and should prove important for chromosome mapping in the red kangaroo and in many other species of marsupials.
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