Degeneration and Loss of the Eye in the Amphipod Gammarus cheureuxi Sexton. Part I

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A description has been given of a mating which produced a great range of eye-irregularity in the offspring. Not only were the size, shape, and pigmentation affected, but the eye-structure itself, many cases occurring in which one eye or even both eyes were missing at birth. This experiment adds another proof to the statement that the farther removed from the normal an animal is, the lower its viability. The mortality was much higher amongst the abnormals, and breeding experiments with the survivors were exceedingly difficult on account of the trouble experienced not only in rearing them to maturity, but in finding suitable mates. The cannibalism of the males of this stock made it almost impossible to use them, and small, not too vigorous, males had to be sought in the Albino No-white strain. In three of the One-eyes, i.e. those in which one eye was present at birth, and no trace of a second could be seen (even with a high power), a very imperfect second eye developed later, after several moults had taken place. An example, CN.220c, is illustrated in Text-fig. 5 (List, p. 384).

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