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W. Bateson,Mendel’s Principles of Heredity, 1909, p. 181.
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TheF1 chicks all had coloured plumage and subsequent breeding showed that the white of the Silky behaved as a simple recessive (cf.Rep. Evol. Comm. Roy. Soc. iv. 1908).
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Morgan,Science, 1910, N. S. xxxii. p. 120.
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Morgan, Payne, and Browne,Biol. Bull. 1910, xviii. p. 76.
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Cf. Tegetmeier,The Poultry Book, 1873, p. 268; Darwin,Animals and Plants, 2nd edit., 1899, p. 253; Davenport,Inheritance in Poultry, 1906, p. 60.
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An account of the origin of this strain will be found inReports to the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society, iii. p. 19, iv. p. 28.
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Bateson, W., Punnett, R.C. The inheritance of the peculiar pigmentation of the silky fowl. Journ. of Gen. 1, 185–203 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02981551
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