Article
Sectorial mosaics in the domestic pigeion: 25 more years.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Hollander W F
Abstract excerpt
The hypothesis of bipaternity--incorporation of tissue derived from supernumerary sperms into an embryo--to explain the origin of sectorial mosaicism in pigeons was advanced in 1949. Since then, 182 additional examples have come to my attention. Only one was reported to be a gynandromorph; sex ratios generally have been near 1 : 1. No environmental variable has shown significant relation to the origin of the...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Columbidae
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Linkage
- Mosaicism
- Pigmentation
- Sex Chromosomes
- Sex Ratio