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Piebald rats and selection

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Piebald rats and selection

William Ernest Castle and John Charles Phillips

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Can you breed a spotted rat into a solid one, generation by generation? Castle put the question to the test, running plus and minus selection series, crossing hooded rats with wild and black Irish strains, and recording every result. A foundational experiment in heredity from the dawn of genetics. Watch inheritance revealed one careful litter at a time.

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77 chapters

  1. 1PIEBALD RATS AND SELECTION.
  2. 2INTRODUCTION.
  3. 3MATERIAL AND METHODS.
  4. 4PLUS SELECTION SERIES.
  5. 5Table A.
  6. 6MINUS SELECTION SERIES.
  7. 7RETURN SELECTION.
  8. 8CROSSES WITH WILD RATS.
  9. 9CROSSES WITH BLACK “IRISH” RATS.
  10. 10PLUS SELECTION OF “EXTRACTED HOODED” RATS.
  11. 11Table B.—Comparison of the present series with the more general plus selection series.
  12. 12CROSSES OF THE PLUS RACE WITH THE MINUS RACE.
  13. 13SUMMARY OF RESULTS.
  14. 14DISCUSSION.
  15. 15THE “MUTANT” SERIES.
  16. 16Table C.
  17. 17BIBLIOGRAPHY.
  18. 18TABLES.

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