Piebald rats and selection : $b An experimental test of the effectiveness of selection and of the theory of gametic purity in Mendelian crossesCastle, William E. (William Ernest)
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Piebald rats and selection : $b An experimental test of the effectiveness of selection and of the theory of gametic purity in Mendelian crosses
Castle, William E. (William Ernest)
Heredity
The mutant male was mated with the mutant female and also with other
females of the plus series, with the results shown in Table 51. In every
case the young fall into two distinct groups, one of which varies about
the general mean of the plus series (approximately 3¾), while the other
varies about the father’s grade as a mean (approximately 5½).
The mutant female had 16 young, 6 in the lower group, mean 3.87, and 10
in the upper group, mean 5.60. (See Table 51, lowest row.) The other
females had in all 114 young almost equally divided between the two
groups, 58 in the lower group, mean 3.73, and 56 in the upper group,
mean 5.45. This result indicates clearly (what the sequel also confirms)
that the male mutant transmitted in half his gametes the high grade of
pigmentation which he himself manifested, while in the other half of his
gametes he transmitted the ordinary condition of the plus race at that
time. In other words his “mutant” character behaved as a dominant unit in
relation to the ordinary condition of the plus race.
It is evident that the female mutant was of similar constitution. This
being the case, we should expect three-fourths of the offspring of the
two mutants to be in the upper group. In reality 10 of their 16 young
were of this sort.
The male mutant was mated also with females of the minus series with
the results indicated in Table 52. Again, the offspring fall into
two distinct groups, a lower and an upper. The lower group should be
comparable with the result obtained in F₁ when the plus and minus races
are crossed with each other. (Compare Table 50.) Such it proves to be. It
includes 35 individuals of mean grade -0.49 and standard deviation 0.77.
Series 2 of Table 50 is nearly contemporaneous with this experiment. The
F₁ offspring in that series were of mean grade -1 and standard deviation
0.60.
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