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IN 1926, Prof. J. W. Heslop Harrison and Dr. F. C. Garrett published an account of experiments in which the moth Selenia bilunaria was fed upon hawthorn foliage which had been artificially contaminated with salts of lead and manganese respectively. In the second generation of moths fed upon the treated material, melanic forms appeared, and the melanism afterwards was inherited on Mendelian lines. No melanics appeared in the control moths fed upon untreated foliage.
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HUGHES, A. Inheritance of Melanism in Moths. Nature 128, 496 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128496b0
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