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In the case of armored scale insect chimerism, the bacteriome does have a copy of the paternal genome, and that copy is identical to the paternal genome in the rest of the embryo, so in that sense the two tissues do have a high relatedness similar to the high relatedness of full siblings under haplodiploidy.
While there is some suggestion that paternal exposure to PCBs may increase the sex ratio, this finding was not robust.
Because the birth of a child should not alter paternal serum PCB concentration, we considered the sex of all children of each father in our sample to increase the power of our analysis.
We saw no effect of paternal serum PCB concentration on the odds of a male child (Figure 3b).
Otherwise, separate analyses were run for maternal and paternal exposure, and the 76 children for whom we had blood samples from both parents were included in both maternal and paternal analyses.