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Table 2 Posterior means and 95% CI of the fixed effects for the animal models used for body mass and wing length

From: Animal models with group-specific additive genetic variances: extending genetic group models

 

Body mass

Wing length

 

Heterogeneous

Homogeneous

Heterogeneous

Homogeneous

Sex (females)

0.47

0.48

\(- 2.76\)

\(- 2.77\)

(0.29, 0.64)

(0.30, 0.65)

(\(- 2.89\), \(- 2.63\))

(\(- 2.90\), \(- 2.63\))

\(F_{GRM}\)

\(-\, 1.13\)

\(-1.27\)

\(- 1.35\)

\(- 1.38\)

(\(- 3.00\), 0.73)

(\(- 3.12\), 0.58)

(\(- 2.73\), 0.02)

(\(- 2.75\), \(- 0.01\))

Month

\(- 0.30\)

\(- 0.30\)

\(- 0.19\)

\(- 0.19\)

(− 0.36, − 0.24)

(\(-0.36\), \(- 0.24\))

(\(- 0.22\), \(- 0.15\))

(\(- 0.22\), \(- 0.15\))

Age

0.08

0.08

0.47

0.47

(0.02, 0.14)

(0.02, 0.14)

(0.43, 0.50)

(0.43, 0.50)

\(g_2\) (outer)

\(- 0.45\)

\(- 0.43\)

\(- 0.15\)

\(- 0.26\)

(\(- 0.84\), \(- 0.06\))

(\(- 0.87\), 0.02)

(\(- 0.48\), 0.18)

(\(- 0.65\), 0.14)

\(g_3\) (other)

\(- 0.36\)

\(- 0.32\)

\(- 0.18\)

\(- 0.22\)

(\(- 0.83\), 0.10)

(\(- 0.89\), 0.26)

(\(- 0.55\), 0.18)

(\(- 0.70\), 0.27)

  1. The estimates were extracted from models with either group-specific (heterogeneous) or a single (homogeneous) additive genetic variance