Inheritance in Silkworms, I (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Inheritance in Silkworms, I

During the course of the work fifteen different silkworm races have been bred pure and used in hybridization, but a few of these have been used much more than the others. These various races (bagdad, Istrian, Japanese White, Japanese Green, Chinese White, Italian Yellow, French Yellow, Persian Yellow, Turkish and French Yellow, etc.) are distinguished from each other by Characteristics of the egg, the larva, the cocoon and, to some degree, of the adul...