Re: Hybrid naming conventions?

MARTIN HENERY (mhenery@rna.bio.mq.edu.au)
Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:21:03 GMT+1000

I'm sorry to harp on about typos but this one really cracked me up.
Simians and equines crossing the species barrier?? Amazing!!!!
The images that spring to mind are too horrible to contemplate for
long ;-)
>
> A classical example of F1 differences are the monkey x horse bastards which
> look different depending if the monkey or the horse was the female. The
> german language has even two different words for the two mule forms
> (Maulesel, Maultier).The reason is probably the fact that the chromosomes
> are not the only heredity factors. Plasmatic factors also may influence
> heredity and are only present in the female egg cell but not in the sperma
> cells.

Martin Henery