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Figure 5

From: Support for the reproductive ground plan hypothesis of social evolution and major QTL for ovary traits of Africanized worker honey bees (Apis melliferaL.)

Figure 5

Possible genetic model of the inheritance of the observed transgressive ovary sizes, focusing on the two major QTL on chromosome 6 and chromosome 11 in the two backcrosses ABC3 and ABC5. Possibly different alleles are indicated by subscripts. The crossing scheme does not allow for different alleles from the Africanized ancestor to segregate at one locus. Thus, the differences between ABC3 and ABC5 must be caused by dominance or epistasis effects.

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BMC Ecology and Evolution

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