Geographic variation in the G matrices of wild populations of the barn swallow

Heredity
D A RoffN Saino

Abstract

In this paper, we present an analysis of genetic variation in three wild populations of the barn swallow, Hirundo rustica. We estimated the P, E, and G matrices for six linear morphological measurements and tested for variation among populations using the Flury hierarchical method and the jackknife followed by MANOVA method. Because of nonpositive-definite matrices, we had to employ 'bending' to analyse the G and E matrices with the Flury method. Both statistical methods agree in finding that the P and G matrices are significantly different but comparison between the analysis of the P matrices and pairwise analyses of the P, E, and G matrices suggests caution in interpreting the Flury results concerning differences in matrix structure. The significant variation among the populations in the G matrices appears to be due in large measure to the most geographically distant population.

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