Red cell enzymes of primates (Anthropoidea)

Blood Groups, Red Cell Enzymes and Serum Proteins of Baboons and Vervets

“…Studies of red cell enzymes in a wide range of primate species have been reported recently by Schmitt et al [1970Schmitt et al [ , 1971a, Tariverdian et al [1971a-d], K ompf et al [1971a, b], Barnicot et al [1970Barnicot et al [ , 1971, Tashian et al [1971], Ishimoto et al [1970Ishimoto et al [ , 1972, Prychodko et al [1971], and K han et al [1972].…”

Red Cell Enzymes and Serum Proteins of Cercopithecus aethiops (South African Green Monkey)

“…They also found 1 individual P. troglodytes with a pattern at the PGM 2 locus similar to the human 'Palmer' phenotype [H o pk in so n and H a rris, 1966], Erythrocyte Acid Phosphatase There was no variation in the pattern displayed showing, as in the human P-phenotype, 2 components of approximately equal strength and a variable faster moving minor component. We found, as did Barnicot and Cohen [1970] in cercopithecoid species, that the mobility of the monkey components was considerably faster than the human samples. They found polymorphic variation in M. irus and in Aotus.…”

“…Barnicot and Cohen [1970] describe variation at the 6 PGD locus in Gorilla gorilla, Macaca irus, Ateles, Saguinus and Oedipomidas, some specimens showing a pattern of 3 equidistant bands presumably representing heterozygosity.…”

“…How ever, data on enzyme differences in nonhuman primate species are scarce. Barnicot and Cohen [1970] worked on Anthropoidea, Schmitt et al [1970] on Pongidae and Buettner-Janusch and Wiggins [1970] on the red cell acid phosphatase of Galago.…”

On the Geographical Variability of the red cell PGM₁and Acid Phosphatase Gene Frequencies

“…It is worth mentioning here that according to Barnicot and Cohen [1970] and Schmitt et al [1970], pongids like orang-utang, gorilla and chimpanzee -all living under tropical conditions -are characterized by an acid phosphat ase pattern which is at least electrophoretically very similar to the human AcP B type. Assuming a biochemical identity or at least great similarity of these acid phosphatase patterns in pongids and hominids, which, however, is still to be proved, one can argue, that the Pb allele is phylogenetically fairly old, whereas the Pa allele (as well as Pc, Pr and Pd alleles) came into existence after separation of the hominid line from the common ancestral stock of pongids and hominids.…”