. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 8 EXPERIMENTS WITH DROSOPHILA equaled in the classes where the two wings markedly differ, indicates a definite positive correlation. Furthermore, when one wing is abnormal the chances that the other one will be abnormal also are 62 in 100 in the case of the males and 74 in 100 in the case of the females. This is an estimate based upon 4,000 pedigreed individuals. It will probably not hold for wild flies, since a large part of the 4,000 were from the abnormal strain; hence the esti- mated chances are larger than they would be in na
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 8 EXPERIMENTS WITH DROSOPHILA equaled in the classes where the two wings markedly differ, indicates a definite positive correlation. Furthermore, when one wing is abnormal the chances that the other one will be abnormal also are 62 in 100 in the case of the males and 74 in 100 in the case of the females. This is an estimate based upon 4,000 pedigreed individuals. It will probably not hold for wild flies, since a large part of the 4,000 were from the abnormal strain; hence the esti- mated chances are larger than they would be in nature, because, as will be shown shortly, there is a close relation between the percentage of abnormal offspring in a family and the likelihood that an abnormal fly will be abnormal in both wings. It does, however, give an idea of the correlation which exists between the two wings with respect to the presence or absence of abnormal venation when such abnormalities are well fixed, and it brings out the further point that there is a sexual dif- ference to be considered. SEXUAL DIMORPHISM. The females show a greater tendency to be abnormal than do the males, and, when abnormal, their abnormalities are, on the average, more intense than those of the males. The first of these points is illus- trated in table 4 and fig. 51. Table 4 shows the percentage of abnor- mal males and females in 200 families. It will be noted that as the percentage of abnormal males increases the percentage of their sisters which are abnormal increases until the latter have become practically 100 per cent abnormal. Then, since they can go no further, their brothers gain on them in abnormality until we get families in which 100 per cent of both males and females are abnormal. In fig. 51 the crosses show the position of the mean percentage of abnormal sisters for each 10 per cent grade of abnormal brothers. A line is drawn to show the condition when for each per cent of male abnormality the female abnormality is
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