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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-12-17
pubmed:abstractText
Negative relationships between allozyme heterozygosity and morphological variance have often been observed and interpreted as evidence for increased developmental stability in heterozygotes. However, inbreeding can also generate such relationships by decreasing heterozygosity at neutral loci and redistributing genetic variance at the same time. I here provide a quantitative genetic model of this process by analogy with heterozygosity-fitness relationships. Inbreeding generates negative heterozygosity-variance relationships irrespective of the genetic architecture of the trait. This holds for fitness traits as well as neutral traits, the effect being stronger for fitness traits under directional dominance or overdominance. The order of magnitude of heterozygosity-variance regressions is compatible with empirical data even with very low inbreeding. Although developmental stability effects cannot be excluded, inbreeding is a parsimonious explanation that should be seriously considered to explain correlations between heterozygosity and both mean and variance of phenotypes in natural populations.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0016-6731
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
153
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1463-74
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-10
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
A quantitative model of the relationship between phenotypic variance and heterozygosity at marker loci under partial selfing.
pubmed:affiliation
CEFE-CNRS, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. p.david@cefe.cnrs-mop.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article