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Table 7 Estimates of phenotypic variance (Vp), residual variance (Vr), genetic variance (Vg), permanent environmental effect of the animal variance (Vpe), and of heritabilities (in italics on diagonal) and phenotypic (above the diagonal) and genetic correlations (below diagonal) for traits at the sow level

From: Genetic selection against intrauterine growth retardation in piglets: a problem at the piglet level with a solution at the sow level

 

PROP IUGR

Ave BWT

SD BWT

LITTER SIZE

PROP SURV

GL

V p

0.022 ± 0.0009

64,673 ± 2786

7325 ± 273.16

13.11 ± 0.495

0.016 ± 0.0006

1.533 ± 0.0595

V r

0.016 ± 0.0008

38,710 ± 2008

6107 ± 308.73

9.82 ± 0.503

0.014 ± 0.0007

1.146 ± 0.0588

V g

0.005 ± 0.0013

21,303 ± 5084

864 ± 341.57

1.42 ± 0.611

0.0007 ± 0.0005

0.311 ± 0.0864

V pe

0.002 ± 0.001

4661 ± 4124

354 ± 361.40

1.87 ± 0.671

0.002 ± 0.0008

0.076 ± 0.0802

PROP IUGR

0.20 ± 0.05

− 0.68 ± 0.01

0.27 ± 0.02

0.38 ± 0.02

− 0.20 ± 0.02

− 0.12 ± 0.03

Ave BWT (g)

− 0.90 ± 0.06

0.33 ± 0.07

− 0.07 ± 0.03

− 0.60 ± 0.02

0.27 ± 0.02

0.14 ± 0.03

SD BWT (g)

− 0.29 ± 0.24

0.60 ± 0.18

0.12 ± 0.04

0.19 ± 0.03

− 0.12 ± 0.03

− 0.05 ± 0.03

LITTER SIZE

0.46 ± 0.20

− 0.59 ± 0.15

− 0.52 ± 0.29

0.11 ± 0.05

− 0.14 ± 0.02

− 0.19 ± 0.03

PROP SURV

− 0.80 ± 0.32

0.84 ± 0.29

0.53 ± 0.41

− 0.62 ± 0.36

0.04 ± 0.03

0.06 ± 0.03

GL (days)

− 0.36 ± 0.19

0.21 ± 0.18

− 0.18 ± 0.23

− 0.34 ± 0.23

0.58 ± 0.32

0.20 ± 0.05

Evolvability (IA)

23.95%

0.96%

1.12%

0.78%

0.09%

0.002%

Repeatability

0.29 ± 0.03

0.33 ± 0.07

0.16 ± 0.04

0.24 ± 0.03

0.13 ± 0.04

0.25 ± 0.04

  1. All standard errors (± SEM) are from a 6-variate model
  2. PROP IUGR = proportion of HEAD CLASS 1 piglets within a litter
  3. AVE BWT = average birth weight within a litter
  4. SD BWT = within litter standard deviation in birth weight
  5. PROP SURV = proportion of a litter surviving to processing
  6. GL = gestation length