A Preliminary Study on Morphology and Serology of Pelodytes caucasicus Boulenger 1896 Populations From North-Eastern Turkey

Abstract

The present study compares the blood serum proteins of two populations of Pelodytes caucasicus from the northeastern Black Sea region of Turkey (Rize and Trabzon) by polyacrylamide-disc electrophoresis. A set of two characters differed males of Trabzon from Rize's ones. No discernible difference was found between the electropherograms of blood serum proteins of the two populations. The densitometric curves of blood serum proteins obtained here for Pelodytes caucasicus differ from those of other anuran species, Rana ridibunda, Bufo viridis, Pelobates fuscus and Bombina bombina.