Sex-linked Inheritance in DrosophilaMorgan, Thomas Hunt
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Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Drosophila; Heredity
There are three loci involved in this cross, namely, cherry, lemon, and
vermilion. Of these loci two were known, cherry and vermilion. The data are
consistent with the assumption that the lemon locus is between cherry and
vermilion, for the double cross-over classes (the smallest classes) are
cherry lemon vermilion and wild type. The number of single cross-overs
between cherry and lemon and between lemon and vermilion are also
consistent with this assumption. Since lemon flies fail to emerge
successfully, depending in part upon the condition of the bottle, the
classes involving lemon are worthless in calculating crossing-over and are
here ignored. In other words, lemon may be treated as though it did not
appear at all, _i. e._, as a lethal. The not-lemon classes--cherry,
vermilion, cherry vermilion, and wild type--give the following approximate
cross-over values for the three loci involved: Cherry lemon, 15; lemon
vermilion, 12; cherry vermilion, 27. The locus of lemon, calculated by
interpolation, is at about 17.5.
LETHAL 2.
In September 1912 a certain wild female produced 78 daughters and only 16
sons (Morgan, 1914_b_); 63 of these daughters were tested and 31 of them
gave 2 females to 1 male, while 32 of them gave 1:1 sex-ratios. This shows
that the mother of the original high sex-ratio was heterozygous for a
recessive sex-linked lethal. In order to determine the position of this
lethal, a lethal-bearing female was bred to an eosin (or white) miniature
male, and those daughters that were heterozygous for eosin, lethal, and
miniature were then back-crossed to {50} eosin miniature males. The
daughters that result from such a cross give only the amount of
crossing-over between eosin and miniature (as 29.7), but the males give the
cross-over values for eosin lethal (9.9), lethal miniature (15.4), and
eosin miniature (25.1). The data for this cross are given in table 25.
TABLE 25.--_Total data upon linkage of eosin, lethal 2, and miniature, from
Morgan, 1914b._
+------------------------------------+
| Females. |
+--------+--------------+------------+
| | | |
| Total. | Cross-overs. | Cross-over |
| | | value. ~
| | | ~
+--------+--------------+------------+
| 15,904 | 4,736 | 29.7 |
+--------+--------------+------------+
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