allozymen.
/ˈaləzʌɪm/, U.S. /ˈæləˌzaɪm/ Biochemistry.
Any of the variants of an enzyme that may be produced by the alleles of a single gene.
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1969 S. Prakash et al. in Genetics 61 843 We propose the term allozyme for the variant proteins produced by allelic forms of the same locus, to avoid the now common confusion with ‘isozymes’ which are the various polymers produced from monomers specified by different loci.
1981 Austral. Jrnl. Bot. 29 635 Two of the three allozyme loci examined for this parameter yielded estimates of 100% outcrossing.
1993 M. W. Klemens Amphibians & Reptiles Connecticut vi. 253 The allozyme evidence indicated that both gray and brown morphs were members of a common gene pool.
2006 Science 28 Apr. 496/3 Within-species allozyme and nuclear DNA variability correlated with expected species abundance and ecological variables.
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alloˈzymic adj.
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1971 Nature 21 July 72/1 Allozymic variants exist in the mouse for..several genetically independent and isozymically distinct forms of peptidase and phosphogluconase.
2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory ix. 812 Mindel et al...performed such a properly constituted test on the reptilian genus Sceloporus , and more loosely on allozymic data in general.
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