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Reflexion of Genetic Differences by Spermatozoan Antigens

Nature New Biology volume 231, pages 144–146 (1971)Cite this article

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INDIVIDUAL rams of one breed differ in both spermatozoan and seminal plasma antigens1, and breeds of ram show similar differences (A. C. K., unpublished). We have examined spermatozoan antigens in rabbits of different genotype at the albino locus, using the Edinburgh AS stock. This uniform stock has been bred for some 20 yr without grandparents in common so as to avoid formation of sublines. In each generation, mating between heterozygotes yields homozygous albino (cc); the heterozygote, or “light sable”, (ccchL) and homozygous light chinchilla, or “dark sable” (ccHLcchL), in numbers close to the 1:2:1 Mendelian expectation. Although numerous genes will be segregating, the repeated crossing over will have ensured that the only constant genetic difference between the three types of rabbit will be at or close to the albino locus.

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  1. ABRAHAM C. KULANGARA

    Present address: Department of Anatomy, the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19129

  2. R. A. BEATTY

    Present address: ARC Unit of Animal Genetics,

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  1. Department of Genetics, University of Edinburgh,

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KULANGARA, A., BEATTY, R. Reflexion of Genetic Differences by Spermatozoan Antigens. Nature New Biology 231, 144–146 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio231144a0

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