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Table 5 Significance of the systematic effects and estimated variances of the random effects affecting both the mean BW (µ) and the environmental variability (v) and its genetic correlations (ρ)

From: Effect of feed restriction on the environmental variability of birth weight in divergently selected lines of mice

 

BW (µ)

BW (v)

ρ

Sex

***

***

 

LSpup

***

  

PN

*

  

Gen*R_RP

***

  

R_GP*R_RP

ns

  

Line*R_RP

 

ns

 

\( \sigma_{l}^{2} \)

0.0198 (0.0028)

  

\( \sigma_{m}^{2} \)

0.0061 (0.0029)

0.0454 (0.0163)

0.34 (0.33)

  1. LSpup litter size, PN parturition number, gen generation, R_GP growth period, R_RP reproduction period, \( \sigma_{l}^{2} \) litter variance, \( \sigma_{m}^{2} \) maternal genetic variance, ns no significant
  2. *p < 0.05; ***p < 0.001