Gregor Mendel and the theory of species multiplication.

doi:10.1093/genetics/iyad046

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Gregor Mendel and the theory of species multiplication.

Genetics - 26 May 2023

van Dijk Peter J, Noel Ellis T H

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According to the revisionist interpretation of Mendel's pea crosses, his primary aim was not to study the inheritance of traits. Instead, he was interested in the question raised by Linnaeus as to whether new species could arise from the hybridization of existing species. The genetic interpretation is therefore seen as ahistorical by the revisionists. This view goes back to the 1979 article "Mendel no Mendelian?"...

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History, 19th Century
Phenotype
Hybridization, Genetic
Inheritance Patterns
Pisum sativum
Databases, Genetic
Genetics

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PMID: 36943805
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyad046

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