The genetics of tasting in mice. II. Strychnine

Abstract. Among twenty-seven inbred strains of mice only one, SWR/J, was found to show a strong aversion to the bitter taste of strychnine in dilute solution. This characteristic segregated in backcross progeny and appears to be determined by the gene Soa, which also determined the ability to taste the bitter sugar derivative sucrose octaacetate