Non-additive effects may affect the evolution of populations by lowering the heritability of the traits that they affect, thus causing inbreeding depression within populations and playing a role in the conversion of non-additive into additive variation during bottlenecks and in the evolution and maintenance of negative genetic correlations between traits (Crnokrak and Roff 1995, Wolf et al. 2000). Furthermore, dominance variance should be present to a greater degree in traits closer to fitness (Crnokrak and Roff 1995). This study uses diallel cross analyses of inbred lines of the sand cricket Gryllus firmus, to examine the sources of variation in weight at age, adult size, development time, fecundity and flight muscle weight and in particular the ratios of additive, dominance and maternal variance to total variance. We also examine the genetic relationships between the traits. / Our study also examines the presence of maternal effects in growth traits and adult size in the sand cricket Gryllus firmus using diallel cross analyses of inbred lines.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.79131 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Sokolovska, Natalia |
| Contributors | Roff, Derek (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Biology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001983855, proquestno: AAIMQ88300, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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