Horizontal starch gel electrophoresis as a technique for examining gray squirrel population genetics

• Main Author: Otto, Ralph Albert
• Other Authors: Wildlife Management
• Format: Others
• Published: Virginia Tech 2014
• Subjects: blood serum protein; LD5655.V855 1975.O88
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42937; http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06082010-020318/

The use of horizontal starch gel electrophoresis to separate gray squirrel blood serum was investigated. Three sources of variation in the techniques were identified: (1) minor variation within-run; (2) variation across-run; (3) variation due to the sampling technique. The frequencies of the most anodal bands of 42 gray squirrel blood serum protein electropherograms were compared among several woodlots using chi-square contingency tables. On the basis of these frequencies, no differences were found among the woodlot populations of gray squirrels examined in this study. === Master of Science