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Table 4 Posterior estimates of heritability for changes in feeding behaviour for each temperature-humidity index (THI) category comparison

From: Genome-wide association of changes in swine feeding behaviour due to heat stress

THI category comparisona

Number of animals

Range of values

Genomic variance

Residual variance

Heritability (SD)b

Normal-Alert

681

− 2.07 to 1.85

0.0249

0.1577

0.136 (0.044)

Normal-Danger

681

− 2.91 to 2.90

0.0602

0.2326

0.205 (0.044)

Normal-Emergency

561

− 3.84 to 2.42

0.0338

0.4028

0.077 (0.045)

Alert-Danger

681

− 1.94 to 2.48

0.0050

0.0700

0.070 (0.031)

Alert-Emergency

561

− 3.12 to 1.74

0.0085

0.2303

0.036 (0.028)

Danger-Emergency

561

− 2.72 to 1.19

0.0034

0.1708

0.020 (0.026)

  1. aNormal (× < 23.33 °C), Alert (23.33 °C ≤ × < 26.11 °C), Danger (26.11 °C ≤ × < 28.88 °C), and Emergency (× ≥ 28.88 °C)
  2. bSD standard deviation of the last 100 samplings of the GenSel BayesC analysis