The quantitative genetic basis of variation in sexual versus non-sexual butterfly wing colouration: autosomal, Z-linked, and maternal effects.

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Viability indicator traits are expected to be integrated extensively across the genome yet sex-limited to ensure that any benefits are sexually concordant. Understanding how such expectations are accommodated requires elucidating the quantitative genetic architecture of candidate traits in and across the sexes. Here we applied an animal modelling approach to partition the autosomal, allosomal, and direct maternal...

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