Fig. 4: Possible scenarios of hormonal treatment affecting the variance in maternal effects, depending on distribution of hormone concentrations and the function mapping hormone levels to phenotype values. | Heredity

Fig. 4: Possible scenarios of hormonal treatment affecting the variance in maternal effects, depending on distribution of hormone concentrations and the function mapping hormone levels to phenotype values.

From: Differential effects of steroid hormones on levels of broad-sense heritability in a wild bird: possible mechanism of environment × genetic variance interaction?

Fig. 4

Symmetrical distributions – with linear (A), sigmoidal (saturating; B) or heterogenous linear (concentration-dependent) mapping functions (C), and a linear mapping function with skewed (log-normal) distributions (D)

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