The Influence of the Cytoplasm Upon Gene-Controlled Heredity
- 1 January 1934
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 68 (714) , 5-23
- https://doi.org/10.1086/280520
Abstract
Expts. are needed to prove the influence of cytoplasm on genic inheritance, which seems to increase with taxonomic difference of parents and especially to affect quantitative factors. Perhaps genes control cytoplasmic properties and gradually alter them. Sex determination in the moth Lymantria is shown to be plasmatic.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: