. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 15.

Published in final edited form as: J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2011 Apr 1;316(5):371–385. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.21410

Table 6.

Comparison of general epistasis pattern with epistasis pattern at rQTL, with respect to canalization (in direction of increased size) and sign epistasis.

	% sign change(f<0)			% canalizing (f < \|1\|)			% reciprocal sign change rQTL(F₉F₁₀)

Trait	F₉F₁₀	rQTL (F₉F₁₀)	P (Δ)	F₉F₁₀	rQTL (F₉F₁₀)	P (Δ)
Femur lt	18.34	29.85	<0.05	33.56	22.39	<0.05	16.7
Humerus lt	21.91	43.33	<0.1	44.27	15.00	n. s.	9.0
Tibia lt	8.33	27.14	<0.05	25.00	40.00	<0.05	20.0
Ulna lt	2.73	45.16	<0.05	40.91	29.03	n. s.	22.2
Tail lt	22.94	50.00	<0.1	34.12	5.56	n. s.	22.6
Kidney wt	19.29	33.33	<0.1	38.02	12.04	n. s.	13.1
Spleen wt	8.33	33.43	n. s.	38.89	26.86	n. s.	8.6
Liver wt	0.00	47.46	n. s.	33.33	24.58	n. s.	26.3
Body wt	1.79	42.86	n. s.	60.71	21.63	<0.05	20.0