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QUANTITATIVE GENETICS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. I. SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN GENETIC PARAMETERS FOR WING TRAITS
David E. Cowley 1, William R. Atchley 2, and J. J. Rutledge 1
1 Department of Meat and Animal Sciences, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
2 Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wisconsin 53706
Sexual dimorphism in genetic parameters is examined for wing dimensions of Drosophila melanogaster. Data are fit to a quantitative genetic model where phenotypic variance is a linear function of additive genetic autosomal variance (common to both sexes), additive genetic X-linked variances distinct for each sex, variance due to common rearing environment of families, residual environmental variance, random error variance due to replication, and variance due to measurement error and developmental asymmetry (left vs. right sides). Polygenic dosage compensation and its effect on genetic variances and covariances between sexes is discussed. Variance estimates for wing length and other wing dimensions highly correlated with length support the hypothesis that the Drosophila system of dosage compensation will cause male X-linked genetic variance to be substantially larger than female X-linked variance. Results for various wing dimensions differ, suggesting that the level of dosage compensation may differ for different traits. Genetic correlations between sexes for the same trait are presented. Total additive genetic correlations are near unity for most wing traits; this indicates that selection in the same direction in both sexes would have a minor effect on changing the magnitude of difference between sexes. Additive X-linked correlations suggest some genotype x sex interactions for X-linked effects.
Submitted on October 17, 1985Accepted on July 12, 1986
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