Genotype-Environment Interaction for Climate and Competition in a Natural Population of Flour Beetles, Tribolium castaneum

Evolution ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Wade
Keyword(s):  
Natural Population ◽  
Tribolium Castaneum ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Genotype Environment Interaction ◽  
Flour Beetles

scholarly journals Genotype × environment interaction in Tribolium castaneum

1964 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Kidwell ◽  
A. E. Freeman ◽  
L. H. Haverland ◽  
G. M. H. Rolfes
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Tribolium Castaneum ◽  
Total Variance ◽  
Direct Selection ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Breeding Values ◽  
Genotype Environment Interaction ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Selection For ◽  
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An experiment was conducted with the flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum to investigate genotype-environment interaction. Ninety-two matings of one male and three females were made at random from a large panmictic population. The females were transferred to individual containers after 4 days. Six daughters were randomly selected from each sire–dam pair and individually mated to unrelated males. Three of the six were placed in an incubator (33·3°C., 45% relative humidity) and three in a cabinet at room conditions (22·2–26·7°C., 30–35% relative humidity) and allowed to produce eggs during a 3-day period. Progeny were counted as pupae and larvae. The traits studied were number of pupae and number of pupae plus number of larvae. A transformation to (X +1)½ was required. A conventional least-squares model was employed, and a large environmental effect was observed. In the incubator the mean number of pupae was 13·4 and of pupae + larvae was 20·1 while the corresponding figures for room conditions were 3·3 and 9·2. Genotype-environment interaction accounted for 3·7 to 6·7% of the total variance for (pupae + 1)½ and 2·1 to 8·3% for (pupae + larvae+ 1)½. Heritability of the traits was essentially the same in both environments. The interaction was due to an increasing difference between environments in production associated with increasing breeding values of the sire, and to small changes in rank of breeding values on the two environments. As a result of the interaction, selection in one environment for production on the other would be expected to be only 71 to 72% as effective as direct selection for (pupae + 1)½ and 62 to 86% for (pupae + larvae + 1)½ even though the fraction of the total variance attributed to genotype-environmental interaction was less than 10%.

ADDENDUM AND CORRECTION TO AN INVESTIGATION OF GENOTYPE × ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION IN RELATION TO A SELECTION EXPERIMENT IN TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM

1974 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 234-236
Author(s):  
S. Malik ◽  
G. W. Friars ◽  
B. L. Raktoe
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Tribolium Castaneum ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Selection Experiment ◽  
Missing Value ◽  
Cell Means ◽  
Genotype Environment Interaction

The analysis of the data of experiment 2 in the original paper (Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology, XIII, 1971, 144-154) was not exact, in that the indicator covariate was not introduced for each missing value. An analysis based on cell means has not changed any of the biological conclusions in the original paper.

AN INVESTIGATION OF GENOTYPE × ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION IN RELATION TO A SELECTION EXPERIMENT IN TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM

1971 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. Friars ◽  
B. N. Nayak ◽  
P. Y. Jui ◽  
B. L. Raktoe
Keyword(s):  
Tribolium Castaneum ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Selection Experiment ◽  
Response To Selection ◽  
Slight Tendency ◽  
Offspring Number ◽  
Genotype Environment Interaction ◽  
Reverse Trend ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Selection Of

An experiment involving the selection of certain lines of Tribolium castaneum for larva weight and others for offspring number in both wet and dry environments was carried out over nine generations. No apparent interactions of environment-selected-in × environment-tested-in was found. That is, the environment-selected-in did not condition response to selection for larva weight, although some slight tendency toward this type of effect was noted for offspring number. However, lines selected for high larva weight showed greater response over controls when tested in the wet as opposed to the dry environment.Crosses of the respective lines indicated that the hatchability of lines selected for larva weight was elevated when they were shifted from the dry to the wet environment. However, the reverse trend was apparent for the control lines. A cross of lines selected for offspring number in wet and dry environments respectively showed repeated superiority in hatchability over other lines and crosses to which it was compared.

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