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The genetics of the Dutch rabbit—A criticism

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  1. Bateson, W. and Punnett, R. C.,Journ. Genet. Vol. i, 1911.

  2. Punnett, R. C., and Bailey, P. G.,Journ. Genet. Vol. iv, 1914.

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  1. Castle, W. E.,Studies of Heredity in. Rabbits, Rats, and Micc. Publ. No. 288, Carnegie Inst., Wash., 1919.

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  1. Op. cit.

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  1. A white rabbit with pigmented (blue) eyes is however known: cf.Einführung in dic experimentelle Vererbungslehre, von E. Baur, 2 Aufl. Berlin, 1914, Fig. 28a, p. 75.

  2. The Book of the Babbit, by L. Upcott Gill, 1881, p. 51.

  3. Op. cit. p. 19.

  4. Op. cit. p. 18.

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  1. It would appear from a sentence on p. 16 that Castle does not bind himself by this admission, for he states his opinion here “that dark and tan are allelomorphs but separate in a modified form, one on the whole darker the other on the whole lighter than before they were crossed with each other.”

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  1. Castle regards these grades as generally, if not always, heterozygotes between Dark and White Dutch (op. cit. p. 7), and this is doubtless very often true. Nevertheless I think it equally beyond a doubt that such animals may be homozygous. Indeed Castle probably used such an animal in his experiments. Of the original two Dutch bucks he started with one (♂ 3036) was from his breeding behaviour obviously heterozygous. But the evidence given by Castle strongly suggests that the other (♂ 3037) was not carrying White Dutch. There is no record of his being mated directly to White Dutch, but five of his F1 daughters from self-coloured mothers were mated with oM 3036 (op. cit. Tables 14 and 16) and produced 50 offspring, all of grades 1–9. Had ♂ 3037 been heterozygous it is most likely that some of his tested daughters would have carried White Dutch, and would, when mated with the heterozygous ♂ 3036, have produced some offspring with a grade of pigmentation approximating to White Dutch.

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  1. It is interesting here to recall that Baur obtained F1 animals near Typical Dutch on crossing his blue-eyed whites with albino; cf.Einführung in die experimentelle Vererbungs lehre, 1914, p. 75.

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  1. Cf. Bond, C. J.,Journ. Genet. Vol. ii, 1912, p. 111.

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  1. Probably some were of this constitution, for when crossed with White Dutch a few animals of grades 16 and 17 appeared (cf. Text-fig. 5, p. 15).

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Punnett, R.C. The genetics of the Dutch rabbit—A criticism. Journ. of Gen. 9, 303–317 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02983566

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