Table 3 Estimated heritability (h2), genetic variance (\({{\upsigma }}_{\text{A}}^{2}\)), phenotypic variance (\({{\upsigma }}_{\text{P}}^{2}\)), and residual variance (\({{\upsigma }}_{\mathbf{E}}^{2}\)) of δ15N and δ13C in a multibreed population of Brahman and Droughtmaster steers (standard errors in parentheses)
From: Estimating the heritability of nitrogen and carbon isotopes in the tail hair of beef cattle
Items | δ15N | δ13C |
|---|---|---|
h2 | 0.43 (± 0.14) | 0.41 (± 0.15) |
\({{\upsigma }}_{\text{A}}^{2}\) | 0.19 (± 0.07) | 0.47 (± 0.18) |
\({{\upsigma }}_{\text{P}}^{2}\) | 0.44 (± 0.03) | 1.14 (± 0.08) |
\({{\upsigma }}_{\text{E}}^{2}\) | 0.25 (± 0.06) | 0.67 (± 0.15) |