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[The nature of heterosis, methods of its enhancing and fixation in a series of generations without hybridization].
Izvestiia Akademii nauk. Seriia biologicheskaia - 1 Jan 2000
Strunnikov V A, Strunnikova L V
Abstract excerpt
The long-standing studies into the problem of heterosis on the silkworm and other objects are reviewed. Silkworms are divided by sex for hybridization using the genetic marking of the eggs by sex, an improved method of ameiotic parthenogenesis providing all-female progeny, or the method of obtaining all-male progeny as a result of the death of eggs with female embryos under the influence of two non-allele...
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