The sex-linked black cat fallacy: a textbook case.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110282

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The sex-linked black cat fallacy: a textbook case.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Miller W J, Hollander W F

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Textbook presentations of the genetics of coat color in cats are compared with research literature on cat genetics. There is general failure of the textbook authors to identify mutants by contrast with wild-type standard, thus leading to the erroneous conclusion that black is sex-linked and allel...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Cats
Crosses, Genetic
Female
Genetic Linkage
Genotype
Hair Color
Male
Sex Chromosomes

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