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Several lines of evidence have recently begun to suggest that allelic variants detected by electrophoresis may be heterogeneous, discrete elec-trophoretic variants actually representing a collection of alleles each migrating to the same position on a gel. In this paper I shall describe a series of investigations which I have carried out over the last six years employing gel sieving analysis to detect and characterize electro-phoretically cryptic variation. These investigations have been reported in a series of publications (Johnson 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975a, 1975b, 1976a, 1977a, 1977b, and 1977c), which discuss in detail the theory and experimental methods of this approach.
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Johnson, G.B. (1977). Hidden Heterogeneity among Electrophoretic Alleles. In: Christiansen, F.B., Fenchel, T.M. (eds) Measuring Selection in Natural Populations. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93071-3_13
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