Sex-linked Inheritance in DrosophilaMorgan, Thomas Hunt
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Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Drosophila; Heredity
By reference to table 65 it is seen that white and bar normally give only
about 44 per cent of crossing-over in a two-locus experiment; lethal _sc_
then is expected to be situated at least as far to the right as bar.
Females heterozygous for lethal _sc_ were therefore crossed to bar males,
and their daughters were tested. The lethal-bearing daughters gave 144
cross-overs in a total of 1,734 males, that is, bar and lethal _sc_ gave
8.3 per cent of crossing-over. Lethal _sc_ therefore lies 8.3 units beyond
bar or at about 66.5. The cross-over value sable lethal _sc_ was found to
be 23.5 (387 cross-overs in a total of 1,641 males) which places the lethal
at 43+23.5, or at 66.5. We know from other data that there is enough double
crossing-over in the distance which gives an experimental value of 23.5 per
cent, so that the true distance is a half unit longer or the locus at 67.0
is indicated by the 1,641 males of the sable lethal experiment. In a
distance so short that the experimental value is only 8.3 per cent there
is, as far as we have been able to determine, no double crossing-over at
all, or at most an amount that is entirely negligible, so that a locus at
57+8.3 or 65.3 is indicated by the 1,734 males of the bar lethal
experiment. To get the value indicated by the total data the cases may be
weighted, that is, the value 65.3 may be multiplied by 1,734, and 67.0 may
be multiplied by 1,641. The sum of these two numbers divided by the sum of
1,734 and 1,641 gives 66.2 as the locus indicated by all the data
available. This method has been used in every case where more than one
experiment furnishes data upon the location of a factor. In constructing
the map given in diagram I rather complex balancings were necessary.
LETHAL SD.
The fourth lethal which Miss Stark found (May 1914) in the inbred stocks of
_Drosophila_ has not been located by means of linkage experiments. It is
interesting in that the males which receive the lethal factor sometimes
live long enough to hatch. These males are extremely feeble and never live
more than two days. There is, as far as can be seen, no anatomical defect
to which their extreme feebleness and early death can be attributed. {79}
FURROWED.
In studying the effect of hybridization upon the production of mutations in
_Drosophila_, F. N. Duncan found a sex-linked mutation which he called
"furrowed eye" (Duncan 1915). The furrowed flies are characterized by a
foreshortening of the head, which causes the surface of the eye to be
thrown into irregular folds with furrows between. The spines of the
scutellum are stumpy, a character which is of importance in classification,
since quite often flies occur which have no noticeable disturbance of the
eyes.
The locus of furrowed was determined to be at 38.0 on the basis of the data
given in table 61.
TABLE 61.--_Data on the linkage of furrowed, from Duncan, 1915_.
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