Table A2.

Epistatic QTLs of prepartum nest structure in F₂ females.

Locus 1	Locus distance to marker (cm)	Locus distance (cm)	Locus 2	Locus distance to marker (cm)	Locus distance (cm)	Prob. epistasis	Type	Genotypic value	Prob. genotypic value
D1Mit212	8	26	D4Mit235	6	6	3.79 × 10−5	DD	0.687	9.63 × 10−7
D5Mit233	6	26	D6Mit1	0	0	1.38 × 10−4	DD	−0.675	3.19 × 10−6
D5Mit233	4	24	DXMit55	10	10	5.44 × 10−5	AD	0.805	8.12 × 10−7
D6Mit58	10	62	D9Mit8	14	68	2.26 × 10−7	DD	0.681	5.82 × 10−9
D7Nds1	2	52	D14Mit225	8	48	7.05 × 10−5	AD	0.827	1.54 × 10−6
D9Mit4	10	46	D11Mit14	0	66	6.56 × 10−6	AD	0.461	5.51 × 10−4
							DA	−0.561	1.40 × 10−4
D19Mit35	8	66	DXMit55	18	18	9.28 × 10−6	AA	0.351	3.38 × 10−2
							AD	0.629	2.74 × 10−5
							DD	0.356	9.70 × 10−3

Epistasis type: AA, additive by additive; AD, additive by dominance; DA, dominance by additive; DD, dominance by dominance. Markers in bold were considered the same region in that respective chromosome.