Genetics Selection Evolution

Table 1 Raw means, standard deviations, and estimates of heritability and variance components for the content of each evaluated mineral in the longissimus dorsi muscle of 373 Nelore steers

From: Detection of quantitative trait loci for mineral content of Nelore longissimus dorsi muscle

Trait	Mean (mg/kg) ± SE	σ ² _e	σ ² _a	h ²
As	0.4 ± 0.001	0.18	0.09	0.34
Ca	164.3 ± 5.2	0.05	0.02	0.31
Cr	0.4 ± 0.03	0.24	0.13	0.36
Co	0.01 ± 0.0007	0.12	0.06	0.33
Cu	1.8 ± 0.05	0.04	0.02	0.30
Fe	44.7 ± 1.6	0.31	0.15	0.32
Mg	759.5 ± 7.6	0.03	0.01	0.29
Mn	0.19 ± 0.01	0.31	0.16	0.33
P	7356.4 ± 85.4	0.04	0.01	0.29
K	1077.5 ± 13.7	0.04	0.02	0.30
Se	0.2 ± 0.005	0.05	0.02	0.32
Na	1746.3 ± 22.86	0.04	0.02	0.29
S	6287.7 ± 84.6	0.04	0.02	0.30
Zn	79.8 ± 1.2	0.04	0.02	0.31

As = arsenic, Ca = calcium, Cr = chromium, Co = cobalt, Cu = copper, Fe = iron, Mg = magnesium, Mn = manganese, P = phosphorus, K = potassium, Se = selenium, Na = sodium, S = sulfur and Zn = zinc; SE: standard error.

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