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IT is not surprising that animals which breed so fast and occupy so little room as silkworms should have afforded the material for the experimental investigation of heredity. The publication before us is the outcome of the third considerable series of breeding experiments with this moth. The first to appear was that of Coutagne (“Recherches experimentales sur l'Héredité chez les Vers a Soie”). This work was done without a knowledge of Mendel's observations, a fact which only increases the value of the work in the eyes of those who are not familiar with this author's other writings. The experiments, on the other hand, of Kametaro Toyama were carried out with the full knowledge of Mcndelian principles, and were, indeed, set on foot with the object of testing them.
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Inheritance in Silkworms . Nature 79, 265–266 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079265b0
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