Isolating Gene E' for Early Sexual Maturity
- 1 July 1945
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 79 (783) , 372-377
- https://doi.org/10.1086/281273
Abstract
Previous work has shown age at sexual maturity to be determined cumulatively by a sex-linked gene, E[image], and an autosomal gene, E''. E was eliminated from hybrids of Barred Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds by marking the sex chromosome. Then the isolated E[image] was found to be responsible for decreasing age at maturity from 250 days or over to 190-200 days. When E was added, the age was further decreased to 170-175 days.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: