Gametic products transmitted by chickens heterozygous for chromosomal rearrangements.

Chromosomal analysis was made from 3744 chick embryos derived from reciprocal matings between parents, one of which was heterozygous for a pericentric inversion, a centric fission, or one of three translocations. The objectives were to determine the types and frequencies of genetically balanced and unbalanced gametes transmitted to early embryos by rearrangement heterozygotes and to ascertain if some gametic types were preferentially produced or utilized. The array of embryos obtained from the heterozygous sires did not deviate significantly from the expected, except in the case of the centric fission group.

The relation between the age of the corpus luteum (CL) and the luteolytic effect of an LH-antiserum (LH-AS): comparison of hysterectomized pseudopregnant rats with intact pregnant rats for their response to LH-AS treatment at four stages of CL activity.

At one of four stages during the period of corpus luteum (CL) activity (day 9, day 12, day 15, or day 18) groups of hysterectomized pseudopregnant (PSP) rats and of intact pregnant (PRG) rats were compared for the effect of a single sc injection of an antiserum to LH (LH-AS) on progesterone secretion. Groups of control rats were injected sc with normal horse serum (NHS) at these same stages, and in all rats, the progesterone level in jugular blood serum was measured by RIA on the day of treatment and 24 and 72 h after treatment. Among the PRG rats, the controls' progesterone levels rose to a peak on day 15, and then slowly declined.