OPOSSUM, A SEMI-DOMINANT LETHAL MUTATION

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Journal Article OPOSSUM, A SEMI-DOMINANT LETHAL MUTATION: Affecting Hair and Other Characteristics of Mice Get access EARL L. GREEN, EARL L. GREEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar STANLEY J. MANN STANLEY J. MANN *Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, and Department of Biology, Brown University, Providence, R. I., respectively. This investigation was supported in part by research grant E-162 from the American Cancer Society to the Jackson Memorial Laboratory, and in part by PHS research grant C-592 from the National Cancer Institute and by PHS training grant 2G-329 from the Division of General Medical Sciences, Public Health Service, to Brown University. The authors are indebted to Mr. Leslie Rinaldo for first discovering the “Opossum” mouse in a litter of B6D2 F1 hybrids, to Mrs. Florence Leland for diligent assistance in carrying out the breeding tests, to Mrs. Priscilla Lane for pointing out how to distinguish agouti Opossum from non-agouti Opossum mice, and to Dr. Margaret C. Green for providing the linkage data in Table IV. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Heredity, Volume 52, Issue 5, Spetember-October 1961, Pages 223–227, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a107077 Published: 01 September 1961