Further Attempts to Induce Heritable Changes in the Fowl by Inter-Species Blood Transfer

Abstract

REPORTS of genetic change effected in the domestic fowl as a result of intra- and interspecies blood transfusions or injections have appeared in the scientific literature at various times during the last twenty years. Much of the work completed prior to the most recent five years is reviewed by Lowe et al. (1963).Buschinelli (1962) was unable to effect hereditary modifications in the domestic fowl as a result of repeated inter-breed, inter-species and inter-family blood injections. Stroun et al. (1963) reported that birds of a White Leghorn strain repeatedly injected with blood from the gray guinea-fowl produced progeny with some gray or black-flecked feathers in the second and later generations. Leroy and Benoit (1966) and Leroy et al. (1966) injected whole or fractionated blood of the guinea-fowl into a strain of Rhode Island Red chickens and obtained progeny in the first generation with extensive changes in the quantity and distribution .