RESEARCH ARTICLE
Inheritance of Shoulder Spotting in the Tetra, Hyphessobrycon bentosi Characidae
Jack S. Frankel*
Department of Biology, Howard University, Washington, DC, 20059, USA
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2009Volume: 2
First Page: 39
Last Page: 41
Publisher Id: TOFISHSJ-2-39
DOI: 10.2174/1874401X00902010039
Article History:
Received Date: 11/02/2009Revision Received Date: 17/02/2009
Acceptance Date: 18/02/2009
Electronic publication date: 2/4/2009
Collection year: 2009
© 2009 Jack S. Frankel
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The tetra (Hyphessobrycon bentosi) exhibits two phenotypes associated with shoulder spotting. Fish possess either a prominent black vertical spot located directly behind the operculum (H. b. bentosi, bentosi white tip tetra) or lack this spot (H. b. rosaceus, rosy tetra). Segregation patterns observed from the progenies of ten different crosses suggest that the inheritance of these phenotypes is controlled by two autosomal loci acting in a complementary fashion, with dominance at both loci required for the expression of the spotted phenotype.
