Estimation of genetic parameters for the implementation of selective breeding in commercial insect production

Table 3 Genetic parameters for larval and adult traits

	N	Sires	Dams	\({\sigma }_{s}^{2}\)	\({\sigma }_{vial}^{2}\)	\({\sigma }_{e}^{2}\)	h² (SE)	CI of h²
Larval size (mm²)	1723	73	184	1.64	32.18	30.16	0.10 (0.21)	[0.034;0.17]
Larval size (quantile normalised)	1723	73	184	0.021	0.19	0.73	0.09 (0.11)	[0.029;0.14]
Larval size (binary)	1723	73	184	0.0055	0.087	0.11	0.11 (0.19)	[0.05;0.18]
Larval survival	4000	74	200	0.0042	0.044	0.17	0.075 (0.081)	[0.046;0.10]
Development time (hours)	630	52	96	120.11	1140.03	693.21	0.25 (0.44)	[0.078;0.44]
Adult survival	3900	74	195	0.014	0.040	0.081	0.41 (0.15)	[0.37;0.44]

The number of observations (N), half-sib families (sires), full-sib families (dams), sire (\({\upsigma }_{{\text{s}}}^{2}\)), vial (\({\upsigma }_{{\text{vial}}}^{2}\)) and residual (\({\upsigma }_{{\text{e}}}^{2}\)) variance components, heritability estimates (h²) with standard errors (SE) and confidence intervals of heritability estimates (CI of h²) for larval size, quantile normalised larval size, larval survival, development time and adult survival across all three replicate populations

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