Question 26 refers to QTL on the cricket autosomes. Forthe sex chromosomes, females crickets are XX and malescrickets are XO, having just one X chromosome but noY chromosome. Can QTL for pulse rate be mapped oncricket X chromosomes? If the song is only sung by malecrickets, can the dominance effects of QTL on the X beestimated?

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Question 26 refers to QTL on the cricket autosomes. For
the sex chromosomes, females crickets are XX and males
crickets are XO, having just one X chromosome but no
Y chromosome. Can QTL for pulse rate be mapped on
cricket X chromosomes? If the song is only sung by male
crickets, can the dominance effects of QTL on the X be
estimated?

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