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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5387897" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Many examples exist of sex-linked traits. In essence, traits that are only carried on the X or Y chromosome. If it is on the X chromosome, a male can only get that trait from his mother, as he had to get the Y chromosome from his father. Examples of sex-linked traits in humans are red-green colorblindness, male-pattern baldness, hemophilia, and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Although the genetics of antlers in bucks is still little understood, and is clearly VERY complex, there is strong indication the general shape and configuration of the antlers are passed from mother to son. In a review of parentage for deer at the Univ. of Georgia research facility, where the parentage of many generations of deer is known for certain, it was found that male offspring of individual bucks did not produce antlers that looked anything like their father's antlers. Not in size, shape, configuration, etc. All of a single buck's male offspring would have very different antlers. Yet when looking at all of the male offspring of a given doe, those bucks DID produce antlers that were similar in shape and configuration. This STRONGLY suggests mothers are passing on the major genetic components of antler shape/configuration to their male offspring, while fathers are not. Now this doesn't mean males don't pass on ANY genetic antler information. A few deer breeders who appear to have figured out more about heritable antler traits than is available in the scientific literature are still selectively breeding particular bucks to pass on specific traits, but the basic-frame of antler shape and point configuration appears to be passed from mother to son.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5387897, member: 17"] Many examples exist of sex-linked traits. In essence, traits that are only carried on the X or Y chromosome. If it is on the X chromosome, a male can only get that trait from his mother, as he had to get the Y chromosome from his father. Examples of sex-linked traits in humans are red-green colorblindness, male-pattern baldness, hemophilia, and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Although the genetics of antlers in bucks is still little understood, and is clearly VERY complex, there is strong indication the general shape and configuration of the antlers are passed from mother to son. In a review of parentage for deer at the Univ. of Georgia research facility, where the parentage of many generations of deer is known for certain, it was found that male offspring of individual bucks did not produce antlers that looked anything like their father's antlers. Not in size, shape, configuration, etc. All of a single buck's male offspring would have very different antlers. Yet when looking at all of the male offspring of a given doe, those bucks DID produce antlers that were similar in shape and configuration. This STRONGLY suggests mothers are passing on the major genetic components of antler shape/configuration to their male offspring, while fathers are not. Now this doesn't mean males don't pass on ANY genetic antler information. A few deer breeders who appear to have figured out more about heritable antler traits than is available in the scientific literature are still selectively breeding particular bucks to pass on specific traits, but the basic-frame of antler shape and point configuration appears to be passed from mother to son. [/QUOTE]
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