Genetic correlations of direct and indirect genetic components of social dominance with fitness and morphology traits in cattle

Table 2 Genetic correlations (r_a) between social dominance vs. the other traits

Trait	r_a of trait with direct dominance			r_a of trait with indirect dominance
Trait	Mean ± (SE)	CI⁻	CI⁺	Mean ± (SE)	CI⁻	CI⁺
Milk yield	− 0.1934 (± 0.0604)	− 0.3078	− 0.0726	0.1341 (± 0.0602)	0.0172	0.2497
Somatic cell score	0.3401 (± 0.0690)	0.2080	0.4738	− 0.1790 (± 0.0831)	− 0.3503	− 0.0234
Fertility	0.3692 (± 0.0945)	0.1760	0.5488	− 0.4690 (± 0.0822)	− 0.6228	− 0.3026
Morphological traits
Fore udder attach	− 0.0036 (± 0.0686)	− 0.1407	0.1246	− 0.0160 (± 0.0651)	− 0.1428	0.1114
Udder overall	0.0051 (± 0.0729)	− 0.1469	0.1415	− 0.0623 (± 0.0681)	− 0.1946	0.0758
Rear udder attach	− 0.1035 (± 0.0734)	− 0.2470	0.0415	0.0269 (± 0.0709)	− 0.1147	0.1634
Udder width	− 0.0848 (± 0.0745)	− 0.2335	0.0567	0.0152 (± 0.0713)	− 0.1246	0.1576
Thinness	− 0.0329 (± 0.0862)	− 0.2010	0.1362	− 0.0424 (± 0.0855)	− 0.2106	0.1238
Front muscularity	0.2660 (± 0.0665)	0.1377	0.4267	− 0.3002 (± 0.0654)	− 0.4267	− 0.1723
Thorax depth	0.2485 (± 0.0660)	0.1226	0.3847	− 0.3250 (± 0.0610)	− 0.4403	− 0.2008

Genetic correlations (r_a) obtained by running bivariate analyses for each trait pair including social dominance vs. the other traits. The posterior means of the Gibbs samples have been reported with the respective standard errors (SE) and the 95% high posterior density confidence interval (CI) of Gibbs sampling estimates. When CI did not contain zero, the mean is in italics

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