Research Article

Heritability of Directional Asymmetry in Drosophila melanogaster

Table 2

Mixed-model analyses of variance of crossvein position in males and females. Line and generation are treated as categorical random variables, and side (left or right) as a fixed effect. All tests of higher interactions had and were omitted from these analyses. S.E. are standard errors from the covtest option in SAS Proc Mixed.

Num.Den.VarianceS.E.

GenderSourcedfdfF P
MalesLine1.2771.315.166
Generation3.1191.647.029
Line × Gen5.1041.119
Side1633110.1.0015
Error20.180.358
FemalesLine1.7911.752.153
Generation2.2181.358.051
Line Gen3.5571.189
Side1633519.9
Error28.4760.506