Datasets / Starch gel and cellulose acetate electrophoretic analysis of allozyme frequencies in barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) populations at a dioxin contaminated site in northern Louisiana


Starch gel and cellulose acetate electrophoretic analysis of allozyme frequencies in barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) populations at a dioxin contaminated site in northern Louisiana

Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

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Creative Commons CCZero

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Description

This study compared the genetic variability of Louisiana barn swallows at a dioxincontaminated wetland to two reference populations. Allozyme frequencies, determined by starch gelcellulose acetate electrophoresis, were used to compare genetic variation. This was the first study of this type using avian species, the results failed to show genetic alteration in the potentially contaminated population compared to the reference populations. The barn swallows from the contaminated site were genetically more similar to one of the reference populations than were the reference populations to each other.