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Variation in sex ratio between progeny groups in dairy cattle

✍ Scribed by Reuven Bar-Anan; Alan Robertson

Book ID
104702599
Publisher
Springer
Year
1975
Tongue
English
Weight
230 KB
Volume
46
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-5752

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✦ Synopsis

Highly significant differences between progeny groups have been found in the Israeli-Frisian breed of cattle. The standard deviations between groups in the proportion of males was estimated to be 1.5%. Significant correlations between sire and son and between half-sibs in the sex ratio of their progeny suggest that the differences may have a genetic basis.

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Sex ratio in the Trinidad (T-30) strain of Aedes aegypti has remained constant at around 43 ~ during seventeen years of laboratory culture. The divergence from 50~ is due to meiotic drive by the MO gene on the Y chromosome. The driving Y chromosome gives a much more distorted sex ratio (mean = 5.7 ~