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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HENKING, Hermann (1858 – 1942)

1858 – 1942

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1891

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Untersuchungen über den ersten Entwicklungsvorgänge in den Eiern der Insekten. II. Ueber Spermatogenese und deren Beziehung zur Eientwicklung bei Pyrrhocoris apterus.

HENKING, Hermann (1858 – 1942)

In his study of the testicles of the firebug (Pyrrhocoris) Henking noticed that one chromosome did not take part in meiosis. He named this X element because its strange behavior made him unsure whether it was genuinel…