
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Halliday, RB 
T1  - Electrophoretic Variation of Amylase in Meat Ants, Iridomyrmex Purpureus, and Its Taxonomic Significance.
JF  - Australian Journal of Zoology
JO  - Aust. J. Zool.
Y1  - 1975
VL  - 23
IS  - 2
SP  - 271
EP  - 276
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO9750271 
N2  - Amylase isozymes in natural populations of Iridomyrmex purpureus (F. Sm.) in South Australia were found to be controlled by a polymorphic gene locus with four alleles. Two of the commonest forms of this species (I. p. purpureus and an unnamed blue form) were found to have considerable differences in allele frequency at the locus. This was taken as evidence that these forms do not interbreed in nature and so are separate species. It was not possible to make a distinction on this basis between I. p. purpureus and a third form, I. p. viridiaeneus Viehmeyer [cf. RAE/A 63, 1611], and the relation between these two remains uncertain. 
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