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Table 3 Phenotypic and genetic correlations 2 , above and below the diagonal, respectively, with standard errors (in brackets) for the 8340 tom turkeys

From: Assessment of residual body weight gain and residual intake and body weight gain as feed efficiency traits in the turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

Traits1

FI

MMW

WG

FCR

RFI

RG

RIG

RIG2

RIG3

FI

 

0.41 (0.01)

0.73 (0.01)

−0.27 (0.01)

0.61 (0.01)

0.00 (0.01)

−0.31 (0.01)

−0.20 (0.01)

−0.42 (0.01)

MMW

0.67 (0.06)

 

0.59 (0.01)

0.05 (0.01)

0.00 (0.01)

0.00 (0.01)

0.00 (0.01)

0.00 (0.01)

0.00 (0.01)

WG

0.63 (0.05)

0.62 (0.06)

 

−0.68 (0.01)

0.00 (0.01)

0.66 (0.01)

0.42 (0.01)

0.52 (0.01)

0.29 (0.01)

FCR

0.21 (0.16)

−0.04 (0.15)

−0.64 (0.11)

 

0.15 (0.01)

−0.71 (0.01)

−0.59 (0.01)

−0.64 (0.00)

−0.51 (0.01)

RFI

0.67 (0.06)

0.09 (0.09)

−0.07 (0.11)

0.36 (0.09)

 

−0.58 (0.01)

−0.86 (0.00)

−0.77 (0.01)

-

RG

−0.41 (0.09)

−0.28 (0.09)

0.43 (0.08)

−0.66 (0.10)

−0.76 (0.05)

 

0.91 (0.00)

-

-

RIG

−0.57 (0.07)

−0.22 (0.09)

0.29 (0.10)

−0.93 (0.09)

−0.93 (0.02)

0.94 (0.01)

 

-

-

RIG2

−0.52 (0.08)

−0.25 (0.09)

0.34 (0.09)

−0.94 (0.12)

−0.87 (0.03)

-

-

 

-

RIG3

−0.62 (0.06)

−0.18 (0.09)

0.22 (0.10)

−0.89 (0.10)

-

-

-

-

 
  1. 1Feed intake (FI), metabolic mid-weight (MMW), body weight gain (WG), feed conversion ratio (FCR), residual feed intake (RFI), residual body weight gain (RG), residual intake and body weight gain (RIG, RIG2 and RIG3); 2due to confounding factors from linear combinations of RFI and RG into RIG traits, correlations were not calculated in some instances.