Andrews R H, Adams M, Baverstock P R, Behm C A, Bryant C
Int J Parasitol. 1989 Aug;19(5):515-8. doi: 10.1016/0020-7519(89)90081-7.
The technique of allozyme electrophoresis was applied to three strains of Hymenolepis diminuta to distinguish between three hypotheses [(1) multiple species, (2) genetically distinct founder stocks and (3) response to differential selection among similar stocks] proposed to account for metabolic differences among strains. There was no evidence from the 39 enzyme loci established that the three strains represented more than one species. In the absence of knowledge of the population structure of H. diminuta in the wild, electrophoretic data herein could not distinguish between the latter hypotheses. Nevertheless, all three strains were distinguishable on electrophoretic profiles and allelic similarities between strains question the view of their proposed origins.
等位酶电泳技术被应用于微小膜壳绦虫的三个菌株，以区分三种假说[（1）多个物种，（2）遗传上不同的奠基种群，以及（3）相似种群间对差异选择的反应]，这些假说是为了解释菌株间的代谢差异而提出的。在所建立的39个酶位点中，没有证据表明这三个菌株代表不止一个物种。由于缺乏关于野生微小膜壳绦虫种群结构的知识，本文的电泳数据无法区分后两种假说。然而，所有三个菌株在电泳图谱上是可区分的，并且菌株间的等位基因相似性对它们假定起源的观点提出了质疑。
