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Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila

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SEX-LINKED INHERITANCE IN DROSOPHILA

BY

T. H. MORGAN and C. B. BRIDGES

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WASHINGTON Published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington 1916

CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON Publication No. 237.

PRESS OF GIBSON BROTHERS, INC. WASHINGTON, D. C.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

Part I. Introductory 5

Mendel's law of segregation 5

Linkage and chromosomes 5

Crossing-over 7

The Y chromosome and non-disjunction 8

Mutation in Drosophila ampelophila 10

Multiple allelomorphs 11

Sex-linked lethals and the sex ratio 14

Influence of the environment on the realization of two sex-linked characters 16

Sexual polymorphism 17

Fertility and sterility in the mutants 18

Balanced inviability 19

How the factors are located in the chromosomes 20

The sex-linked factors of Drosophila 21

Map of chromosome X 22

Nomenclature 24

Part II. New data 25

White 25

Rudimentary 25

Miniature 26

Vermilion 27

Yellow 27

Abnormal abdomen 27

Eosin 28

Bifid 28

Linkage of bifid with yellow, with white, and with vermilion 29

Linkage of cherry, bifid, and vermilion 30

Reduplicated legs 31

Lethal 1 31

Lethal 1a 32

Spot 33

Sable 34

Linkage of yellow and sable 35

Linkage of cherry and sable 37

Linkage of eosin, vermilion, and sable 37

Linkage of miniature and sable 40

Linkage of vermilion, sable, and bar 40

Dot 44

Linkage of vermilion and dot 44

Bow 46

Bow by arc 47

Lemon body-color 48

Linkage of cherry, lemon, and vermilion 48

Lethal 2 49

Cherry 51

A system of quadruple allelomorphs 51

Linkage of cherry and vermilion 51

Compounds of cherry 52

Fused 53

Linkage of eosin and fused 54

Linkage of vermilion, bar, and fused 56

Forked 58

Linkage of vermilion and forked 59

Linkage of cherry and forked 59

Linkage of forked, bar, and fused 60

Linkage of sable, rudimentary, and forked 61

Linkage of rudimentary, forked, and bar 62

Shifted 63

Linkage of shifted and vermilion 63

Linkage of shifted, vermilion, and bar 64

Lethals sa and sb 64

Bar 66

Notch 66

Depressed 67

Linkage of depressed and bar 67

Linkage of cherry, depressed, and vermilion 68

Club 69

Genotypic club 70

Linkage of club and vermilion 70

Linkage of yellow, club, and vermilion 70

Linkage of cherry, club, and vermilion 72

Green 73

Chrome 74

Lethal 3 74

Lethal 3a 75

Lethal 1b 76

Facet 76

Linkage of facet, vermilion, and sable 77

Linkage of eosin, facet, and vermilion 78

Lethal sc 79

Lethal sd 79

Furrowed 80

Additional data for yellow, white, vermilion, and miniature 80

New data contributed by A. H. Sturtevant and H. J. Muller 82

Summary of the previously determined cross-over values 83

Summary of all data upon linkage of gens in chromosome I. 84

Bibliography. 86

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