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REALIZED GENETIC PARAMETERS FOLLOWING SELECTION IN TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM IN TWO ENVIRONMENTS Heritabilities and genetic correlations were estimated in a population of Tiboliumy casta- neum, where larva weight and offspring number were measured in one base and eight selected generations. Control lines (each represented by 50 single-pair matings) and lines selected for larva weight or offspring number (each represented by 25 single-pair matings) were replicated twice in both a wet and a dry environment. heritability of larva weight generations in the realized in both the wet and dry environments. The realized genetic correlations between larva weight in the wet as opposed to the dry environment indicated that genotypes affecting this trait were not specific to either environment. The realized genetic correlations between larva weight and offspring number were and decreasing under selection in the wet environment. By contrast, in the dry environment, the estimates of this realized correlation were near zero and increasing slightly under selection. trait in animal or plant populations has prompted wide use of different versions of the selection index as Estimates of parameters represented by either genetic correlations and heritabilities or by genetic and phenotypic variances and cova- L ERNER 8) 195 ( riances are needed in constructing such indexes. indicated that selection would tend to decrease positive genetic correlations, even allowing for a shift from positive to negative. (6)2 19 RET OB SON and McKEAN the hypothesized changes of I,!RN!R. 66)19 HILL and which suggested that the direction of However, A change in genetic correlations was, in fact, gene frequency dependent. pertinent conclusion of these latter workers was that, with existing theory, the prediction  of correlated responses is likely to be much poorer than the prediction of direct responses, unless genetic parameters are estimated in each generation. In this (