SEX DIFFERENCES IN GENE EXPRESSION FOR PUPA WEIGHT IN LONG TERM SELECTED LINES OF TRIBOLIUM

Abstract

Full-sib matings in two populations of Tribolium which had been selected for increased pupa weight for more than 85 generations resulted in a significant inbreeding depression in male progeny but showed no effect in the female progeny. An analysis of variance of a population produced by backcrossing the selected populations to the inbred lines originally used to establish the select populations (Design-III) indicated some genes were still segregating which produce dominance effects in males but not in females. The data support the hypothesis that a class of genes exists, associated with the autosomes, that differ in their dominance effects on pupa weight in the two sexes.