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Heritabilities for lateral plates in Gasterosteus are 0·50 ± 0·043 at 21° C. and 0·83 ± 0·033 at 16° C. for Lake Wapato stocks, and 0·84 ± 0·039 at 21° C. for five other populations. The estimate for gill rakers from Lake Wapato is 0·58 ± 0·056 at 21° C. In general, the two sexes of offspring do not differ in heritabilities; maternal effects apparently are not present. There is evidence that the asymmetry of plates has a large genetic component. The heritability is estimated at 0·63 ± 0·16. Sex ratio varies widely among laboratory-reared families and there is a significant excess of females in the field. No effects of temperature or density on sex ratio were found.
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Hagen, D. Inheritance of numbers of lateral plates and gill rakers in Gasterosteus aculeatus. Heredity 30, 303–312 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1973.40
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