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. 2007 Jun;176(2):1049–1057. doi: 10.1534/genetics.107.072140

TABLE 1.

Comparison of family sex-ratio distributions with simulated distributions from various sex-determination models

Sex-ratio distribution of half-sib families (d.f. = 6)
Sex-ratio distribution of full-sib families (d.f. = 11)
Model χ2 P-value χ2 P-value
Polygenic, h2 = 0.62 2.07 >0.9 10.9 >0.4
One locus with environmental variance
    p = 0.2 58.1 <0.001 171 <0.001
    p = 0.4 59.6 <0.001 18.4 >0.05
    p = 0.5 22.9 <0.001 6.2 >0.8
    p = 0.6 14.8 <0.05 10.2 >0.5
    p = 0.8 18.2 <0.01 28.1 <0.01
Two loci with environmental variance, p = 0.5 1.42 >0.9 12.6 >0.3
One locus without environmental variance 383 <0.001 865 <0.001
Two loci without environmental variance 23.9 <0.001 139 <0.001
Three loci without environmental variance 12.8 <0.05 63.3 <0.001
Five loci without environmental variance 6.33 >0.4 38.2 <0.001
Polygenic without environmental variance (h2 = 1) 8.04 >0.2 40.1 <0.001

P-value < 0.05 shows incompatibility between simulated and observed data. p, frequency of the male-orienting allele.