
%0 Journal Article
%A Rendel, JM 
%T Variation and Dominance at the Scute Locus in Drosophila Melanogaster
%J Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 1959/12/01
%V 12
%N 4
%P 524-533
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9590524
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BI9590524 
%X A genotypic scale, which is additive, has been worked out for variation of scutellar bristle number in D. melamoqaster, sc+ is shown to be partially dominant to scs», the first substitution of SCSC for sc+ having about six times more effect on genotypic value than the second. Canalization at four bristles is responsible for complete dominance of sc+ in stocks whose mean genotypic value gives a mean phenotype of four bristles in sc+ flies. A function converting the phenotypic to the genotypic scale is given which could be used in heritability analysis. 
