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FEW of the results obtained in recent years by students of heredity on Mendelian lines have appealed to biologists as a whole more forcibly than such cases of “sex-limited” inheritance as are exemplified by colour-blindness in mankind or the special type of wing-marking in the magpie-moth (Abraxas grossu-lariata) described by Dr. Leonard Doncaster in his work on the “Determination of Sex.” Those who have followed the progress of research on the subject during the last five years recognise how important have been the results obtained by Prof. T. H. Morgan and his colleagues in their studies of inheritance in fruit-flies of the genus Drosophila.
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C., G. Sex-Limited Factors in Heredity . Nature 98, 479–480 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/098479b0
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