Are allozymes differing in substrate specificity involved in the evolution of Silene species?

J van Brederode; O Mastenbroek

doi:10.1007/BF00272725

Are allozymes differing in substrate specificity involved in the evolution of Silene species?

Theor Appl Genet. 1983 Jan;64(2):151-3. doi: 10.1007/BF00272725.

Authors

J van Brederode¹, O Mastenbroek

Affiliation

¹ Department of Population and Evolutionary Biology, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

PMID: 24264875
DOI: 10.1007/BF00272725

Abstract

The concerted action of two flavone-skeleton modifying genes, P and Me, and the alleles of three independently segregating loci g, gl and fg involved in flavone-glycosylation lead to the 33 different flavones so far identified in Silene. The alleles of the different loci involved in flavone-glycosylation control enzymes which differ in substrate specificity, a phenomenon not often described in higher organisms. The alleles of the different loci are variously distributed over the different species. The possible evolutionary implications of these distributions are discussed.