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Retarded development of females, a case of maternal inheritance in a moth, Ephestia kuehniella

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Walther Traut
Walther Traut
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Medizinische Hochschule Lübeck, Inst. f. Biologie, D-2400 Lübeck, F.R. Germany
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Retarded development of females (Symbol: Rf) has arisen spontaneously as a new trait in a chromosome mutant strain, which has an autosome fused to the original W chromosome. Female imagines with this trait emerge 1–3 weeks later than the males, due to retarded larval development. The proportion of female imagines is low. Rf is maternally inherited, it is neither expressed in nor transmitted through males. The evidence suggests that it is a dominant or epistatic factor on the autosomal part of the W chromosome-autosome fusion.

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Genetics Research , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 47 - 53
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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