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DR. DARLINGTON'S1 interesting article on "Heredity, Development and Infection" calls for two comments. He states that the "molecular system" of heredity, consisting of plasmagenes, "has been hitherto supposed to be purely maternal in inheritance". There is at least one case to the contrary in animal genetics. L'Héritier and Teissier2 found that the character of susceptibility to carbon dioxide in Drosophila melanogaster was transmitted to all the progeny of a susceptible mother, but to a fraction only of those of a susceptible father. Kalmus3 found that the same was true in an interspecific cross.
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HALDANE, J. Heredity, Development and Infection. Nature 154, 429 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154429a0
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