A comparison of the fastest‐moving transferrin variants of the pig

A new, partially deficient transferrin variant in the pig

“…Finding of this new variant has brought the total number of pig transferrin variants to nine (F, I, A, B, C, X, D', E, D). Keywords: pig, transferrin, polymorphism, partial deficiency In the transferrin system of pigs eight variants were detected by starch gel electrophoresis -I, A, B, D, D', E and X. Variants A, B and C are common and occur both in domestic as well as in some wild pigs; variant D was found in Bohemian Large White and Pfajfer breeds (Schroffel 1966;Hesselholt 1969) and E in Hampshire breed (Baker 1968); variant I was observed in wild pigs, crosses of wild and domestic pigs, and also in Hungarian Large White (Glasnak et al 1976;Skladanowska et al 1979;PBlovics et al 1982;Stratil et al 1982); variant D' was detected only in native Bangladeshi pigs (Kurosawa et al 1987), and variant X was found only in Japanese wild pigs (Kurosawa and Tanaka 1988).…”