Appendixes 323 



Appendix to Chapter XIV. 



Parthenogenetic cases. To the cases in the text must 

 be added the evidence of Przibram as to Mantis, Arch. 

 Entwm., 1909, XXVIIL pp. 602 and 612, and of Lang, as to 

 Helix nemoralis and hortensis (Zts. indukt. Abstam., 1911, 



v. p. 135)- 



Sexual cases. Reference was made in the text to 

 de Vries's observation that the hybrid Oenothera muricata 

 x biennis breeds true. In a recent paper (BioL Cbltt. 1911, 

 xxxi. p. 97) he has briefly published a statement of the 

 very remarkable results which will probably provide an 

 elucidation of this and other paradoxical cases. It appears 

 that reciprocal crosses between these two species give 

 different hybrid types, and that both breed true. Next, 

 calling the reciprocal hybrids MB and BM, it was found 

 that MBY.BM gives only muricata, and that BMxMB 

 gives only biennis \ De Vries conjectures that this behaviour 

 may be due to abortion oi a class of gametes on each side ; 

 but I am inclined to suspect that we should rather compare 

 the phenomenon with that seen in those Stocks and Petunias 

 in which the male and female parts of the same plant have 

 a different genetic constitution. However that may be, we 

 must anticipate that the study of the results of reciprocal 

 crosses will lead to a great extension of genetic science. 



As to lop-eared Rabbits, and the alleged absence of 

 segregation in crosses between long and short-eared races, 

 see A. Lang, ibid., 1910, iv. p. i, who argues that the 

 observed data are not inconsistent with the possibility that 

 there is segregation of numerous factors. 



Much information additional to that contained in this 

 volume will be found in the three text-books which have 

 appeared since : 



Johannsen, W. Element e der exakten Erblichkeits- 



lehre. Fischer, Jena, 1909. 

 Baur, E. Einfiihrung in die Experimentelle Verer- 



bungslehre. Berlin, 1911. 

 Punnett, R. C. Mendelism, ed. 3, 1911. 



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