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SEVERAL years ago the hypothesis was put forward that in œnothera new species have arisen through crossing and been perpetuated by the chromosome linkage which, it was assumed, had arisen as a result of crossing between unrelated species (Gates, 1928).1 It has recently been possible to test this hypothesis experimentally, with results which show that chromosome linkage (catenation)2 can arise when species or mutants showing no catenation are crossed together.
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Zeit.für Abst. u. Vererb. Suppt. Vol., p. 752. Bibligraphia Genetica, vol. 4, p. 480.
Gates, "The Cytological Basis of Mutations", Amer. Naturalist, vol. 65, p. 97; 1931.
See Gates and Goodwin, Proc. Roy. Soc., B, in press.
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GATES, R., CATCHESIDE, D. Origin of Chromosome Linkage in œnothera. Nature 128, 637 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128637a0
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