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Fish Blood Types Researched
By KAY MILJ.S
Pennsylvania fishermen and
hatchery operators may be the
ultimate beneficiaries of blood
type research being conducted
here in the immunogentics
laboratory.
Researchers under the direction
of Dr. James E. Wright, professor
of genetics, are attempting to de
termine the blood types in the
trout and pike families of fish.
When these blood types are
identified, the geneticists then
want to see how they are in•
herited.
"Our eventual aim," Wright
said, "is to determine if the blood
type are associated with growth
and reproduction in order that
the development of superior
strains of fish can be made avail
able in the lakes and streams of
this state,"
The Untnunogentics laboratory
has been awarded a $14,000 grant
for two years by the National Sci
ence Foundation for expansion of
lab facilities and supplies and for
personnel in connection with this
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will be on campus to talk with
interested students from 9 a.m.
to 12 noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Mon
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project,
Cooperating with the lab Is
the Benner Spring Fish Reserve
Station of the Pennsylvania Fish
Commission. The research sta
tion, located on Spring Creek,
six miles from the University,
supplies the fish for both the
blood type and breeding experi
ments,
In testing for fish blood types,
the following procedure is used,
Wright said:
• Blood Is taken from the hearts
of trout and pike. Wright said a
fieart surgeon has explained to
him that even a human heart can
be repeatedly punctured surgi
cally without injury or too severe
pain.
•The,blood serum is removed,
leaving the red blood cells. This
process is called "washing."
•The red blood cells are in
jected into the veins of chickens,
rabbits, goats, goldfish or carp,
where antibodies to the red blood
cell antigens are produced. An
antigen is a type of protein.
•Later these animals have
some blood removed containing
the antibodies produced. Here,
Wright said, there is often an ad-
versities in the United States.
Mrs. Ross will also be at the
University today and tomorrow to
observe the Philippine Peace
Corps training program and its
64 volunteers here. The volun
teers'are now in the third week
of a nine-week training program.
At the end of the fall term the
volunteers will have a few weeks
home leave and then head for
the Philippines.
In the Philippines they will re
ceive several more weeks of train
ing before going into the coun
try's rural areas to teach in
the community schools and
study the culture and customs of
the Filipinos.
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ditional step because many of the
antibodies are similar and test
ing would yield no basis for dis
cerning differences. In this case,
common antibodies are absorbed
from this antiserum by the use
of fish cells and only specific anti
bodies are left.
*Matching tests are then con
ducted with the antibodies pro
duced and the fish antigens. The
presence or absence of agglutin
ation, or a clumping, helps de
termine the fish blood type,
Wright said.
From there, he added, "we can
begin studying the inheritance
patterns by crossing fishes of dif
ferent types."
Wright said that some graduate
students and high school teachers
who are here in the summer are
assisting in the project. Several
undergraduates have also worked
on associated research problems,
he said.
Wright's duties are primarily in
teaching genetics, research on
corn genetics and direction of
graduate programs in genetics. In
1960 he was awarded the Citation
for Superior Teaching by the Uni
versity.
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help solve the problem, he said.
"I talked fo many of the mem
bers and all the old members,"
Sharp said, "and most of them
I were in favor of a merger. Not
one of the members wanted to
merge with Campus party," he
said.
Sharp said that Campus party
was more of an "over-all party,
being represented both on and
off campus. University party is
more of an off-campus party, he
said, and this proposed merger
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"I think Liberal party has the
independent vote," he said.
Elliot Newman, acting Univer
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had not heard anything about the
merger. "I'll probably call an
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