Cellular individuality in the higher animals, with special reference to the individuality of the red blood corpuscle

Abstract

The author reports results of absorption tests using isoagglutinating serum prepared by injection of fowl cells into fowls. They show that there is a very surprising degree of individuality in the cells[long dash]each fowl showing great specificity in absorption of its own antibodies. In heredity experiments, the author shows that chicks have characters of either the father or the mother and, in addition, a factor common to both; but when an anti-chick serum is exhausted with the cells of both father and mother, no further reaction occurs. He gives an interesting example which could be used in determining the parentage of a particular chick.