Studies Of Inheritance In Rabbits Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Journal of Genetics, Vol. 8: 1918-1919 Quite recently a few observations on the growth of rabbits have been published by Davies who states that when a small breed is crossed with a medium sized one the young approximate to the size of the smaller parent. But he admits that the cross was only made in one way using the animal of' the smaller breed as the mother. He is inclined to consider that the reciprocal cross may give a different result, as he holds that larger size depends more upon the mother than upon the father. We cannot yet pretend to know very much about the inheritance of weight in the rabbit. It is clear however that investigations of this nature in the mammal do not yield such clean-cut results as in birds (of. Phillips Punnett and Bailey and it is evident that a great deal of laborious work must yet be done before we can understand a process of which the theoretical, as well as the economic, importance is so considerable. We do not therefore propose to discuss the matter from a general point of view until we are in possession of fuller and more complete data than those of which we may now proceed to give some account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.