Inheritance of trunk striping in the Sumatran tiger barb, Barbus tetrazona.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110153

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Inheritance of trunk striping in the Sumatran tiger barb, Barbus tetrazona.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Frankel J S

Abstract excerpt

The Sumatran tiger barb, Barbus tetrazona, exhibits three truck (pelvic) striping phenotypes: complete, incomplete, and half banded. Segregation patterns observed in the progeny from 12 different matings indicate that the inheritance of these phenotypes is controlled by two autosomal gene loci ac...

Topics

Animals
Crosses, Genetic
Female
Fishes
Genotype
Heterozygote
Homozygote
Male
Probability
Skin Pigmentation

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