Single gene inheritance of occurrence of head spots in mice.

Abstract excerpt

Results from earlier selection studies indicated that while the size of head spots in mice descended from the Goodale head-spot strain was a quantitative, polygenic trait, head-spot occurrence was probably a qualitative trait inherited by one or two genes. The present study was undertaken to examine this possibility by crossing a head-spot stock with three inbred strains and with two noninbred stocks carrying...

Topics

• Animals
• Crosses, Genetic
• Female
• Genes, Recessive
• Genetic Linkage
• Genetic Markers
• Male
• Mice
• Mice, Inbred Strains
• Mice, Mutant Strains
• Models, Genetic
• Phenotype