Sex-linked Inheritance in DrosophilaMorgan, Thomas Hunt
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Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Drosophila; Heredity
+-------------------++---------------------------------------+
| || Second generation. |
| First |+----------+--------+-------------------+
| generation. || | | w^c v |
+---------|---------+| | | ------- |
| | || | | d_p |
| Wild- |Depressed|| | +---------+---------+
| type | [male] ||Reference.| | | ~
|[female] | [male]. || |[female]|Cherry | ~
|[female].| || |[female]|vermilion|Depressed|
| | || | | | |
| | || | | [male]. | [male]. |
+---------+---------++----------+--------+---------+---------+
| 21 | 31 || 19 I | 59 | 23 | 24 |
+---------+---------++----------+--------+---------+---------+
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Second generation. |
+-------------------+-------------------------------------+
| w^c d_p | w^c | w^c d_p v |
| --+----- | -----+-- | --+----+--- |
| v | d_p v | |
+---------+---------+--------+---------+---------+--------|
~ | | | | | |
~ Cherry | | Cherry |Depressed|Cherry | Wild- |
|depressed|Vermilion| |vermilion|depressed| type |
| | | | |vermilion| |
| [male]. |[male]. |[male]. | [male]. | [male]. | [male].|
+---------+---------+--------+---------+---------+--------+
| 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
+---------+---------+--------+---------+---------+--------+
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CLUB.
In May 1913 there were observed in a certain stock some flies which,
although mature, did not unfold their wings (text-fig. H_a_). This
condition was at first found only in males and suspicion was aroused that
the character might be sex-linked. When these males were bred to wild
females the club-shaped wings reappeared only in the F_2 males, but in
smaller number than expected for a recessive sex-linked character. The
result led to the further suspicion that not all those individuals that are
genetically club show club somatically. These points are best illustrated
and proven by the following history of the stock:
[Illustration: FIG. H.--Club wing. _a_ shows the unexpanded wings of club
flies; _c_ shows the absence of the two large bristles from the side of the
thorax present in the normal condition of the wild, b.]
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