A Possible Explanation of the Apparently Irregular Inheritance of Polydactyly in Poultry
- 1 July 1931
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 65 (699) , 376-379
- https://doi.org/10.1086/280381
Abstract
It is suggested that the excess of four-toed fowls frequently found in F1, F2 and backcross following the mating of polydactylous X normal fowls, as observed by Punnett and Pease in their collation of data on polydactyly, may be due to a deficiency in one or both parents of factors necessary for the dominance of polydactyly, rather than to the presence in "resistant" parents of factors inhibiting polydactyly as was suggested by Punnett and Pease.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Genetic studies in poultry. VII. Notes on polydactylyJournal of Genetics, 1929
- Two Further Notes on the Origin of DominanceThe American Naturalist, 1928
- The Possible Modification of the Response of the Wild Type to Recurrent MutationsThe American Naturalist, 1928