Email this article Inheritance of longitudinal white shell bands in the snail Littorina obtusata (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia)
- Authors: Kozminsky E.V.1
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Affiliations:
- White Sea Biological Station, Zoological Institute
- Issue: Vol 52, No 8 (2016)
- Pages: 882-886
- Section: Short Communications
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1022-7954/article/view/187858
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795416080068
- ID: 187858
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Abstract
The hypothesis on monogenic inheritance of white longitudinal shell bands in the snail Littorina obtusata was tested. The data showed that a single gene with two alleles was responsible for the presence of the bands on the snail shell. The presence of bands was the dominant character.
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E. V. Kozminsky
White Sea Biological Station, Zoological Institute
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Email: ekozminsky@gmail.com
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 199034
