Targeted inheritance of sex improves animal breeding

Targeted inheritance of sex improves animal breeding

One of the fundamental rules of inheritance states that different alleles (gene copies) of a trait, such as sex, are inherited with equal frequency. "However, we have long known that there are genes that can increase their rate of inheritance," explains Bernhard Herrmann. His laboratory at the MPIMG has been studying one such element for some time—a section on chromosome 17 in mice called the t-haplotype.