TABLE 1.
Pigmentation phenotypes of the offspring of individual females in three black Amazon lines of P. formosa
| Pedigree
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I (533)
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II (25/IV)
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III (41)
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| Wild type | Spotted | Black | Wild type | Spotted | Black | Wild type | Spotted | Black | |
| 30 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | |
| 75 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 1 | |
| 21 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 0 | |
| 130 | 42 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | |
| 13 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |
| 4 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | |
| 54 | 81 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 0 | |
| 22 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | |
| 27 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |
| 26 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| 62 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||||
| 4 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 33 | 68 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | ||||
| 55 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 54 | 0 | ||||
| 12 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | ||||
| 17 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| 4 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 0 | ||||
| 64 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 123 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 654 | 542 | 4 | 44 | 436 | 1 | 1 | 318 | 1 |
The difference between all lines considering the number of wild-type pigmented, spotted, and black offspring was highly significant. Each line gives the number of offspring in the three phenotype classes of a single female. χ2 = 513.14, d.f. = 4, P < 0.00001.