Heritability of Directional Asymmetry in Drosophila melanogaster

Table 1

Basic statistics of crossvein position and directional asymmetry (DA, ±S.E.). Crossvein position is the mean of the distances from the endpoints of the posterior crossvein to the end of vein L4 in the Drosophila melanogaster wing, ±S.E. Residual S.D. is pooled departures from the line and generation means.

	Male	Female
Crossvein position	0.140 ± 0.00009	0.161 ± 0.00011
DA	0.00036 ± 0.00003	0.00060 ± 0.00003
DA 1% quantile	−0.00364	−0.00396
DA median	0.00037	0.00058
DA 99% quantile	0.00471	0.00523
Residual S.D.	0.00169	0.00193
Residual kurtosis	0.589	0.575