I'm going to construct a reduced version of a mating table to see how
gamete frequencies change from one generation to the next. There are
ten different two-locus genotypes (if we distinguish coupling,
, from repulsion,
, heterozygotes as we
must for these purposes). So a full mating table would have 100
rows. If we assume all the conditions necessary for genotypes to be in
Hardy-Weinberg proportions apply, however, we can get away with just
calculating the frequency with which any one genotype will produce a
particular gamete.3
| Gametes | |||||
| Genotype | Frequency | ||||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | ||||
| 0 |
0 | ||||
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||