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Table 3 Correlations between EBV for milk yield of buck sires of the recorded goats in Saanen

From: Genetic parameters for first lactation dairy traits in the Alpine and Saanen goat breeds using a random regression test-day model

 

LACT

\({\text{SUM}}\_{\text{leg}}4\)

\({\text{PERS}}\_{\text{leg}}4\)

\({\text{a}}_{0} \_{\text{leg}}4\)

\({\text{a}}_{1} \_{\text{leg}}4\)

\({\text{SUM}}\_{\text{leg}}1\)

\({\text{a}}_{0} \_{\text{leg}}1\)

\({\text{a}}_{1} \_{\text{leg}}1\)

\({\text{SUM}}\_{\text{leg}}4{\text{R}}2\)

\({\text{b}}_{1} \_{\text{leg}}4{\text{R}}2\)

\({\text{SUM}}\_{\text{leg}}4\)

0.99

         

\({\text{PERS}}\_{\text{leg}}4\)

0.06

0.15

        

\({\text{a}}_{0} \_{\text{leg}}4\)

0.99

1.00

0.15

       

\({\text{a}}_{1} \_{\text{leg}}4\)

0.11

0.20

1.00

0.20

      

\({\text{SUM}}\_{\text{leg}}1\)

0.99

1.00

0.15

1.00

0.20

     

\({\text{a}}_{0} \_{\text{leg}}1\)

0.99

1.00

0.15

1.00

0.20

1.00

    

\({\text{a}}_{1} \_{\text{leg}}1\)

0.10

0.19

1.00

0.19

0.99

0.19

0.19

   

\({\text{SUM}}\_{\text{leg}}4{\text{R}}2\)

0.99

1.00

0.15

1.00

0.20

1.00

1.00

0.19

  

\({\text{b}}_{1} \_{\text{leg}}4{\text{R}}2\)

0.99

1.00

0.18

1.00

0.23

1.00

1.00

0.22

1.00

 

\({\text{b}}_{2} \_{\text{leg}}4{\text{R}}2\)

− 0.10

− 0.01

0.98

− 0.01

0.97

− 0.01

− 0.01

0.97

− 0.01

0.02

  1. LACT, lactation model; SUM_\({\text{leg}}x\), sum of the daily EBV of \({\text{leg}}x\); PERS_leg4, persistence calculated as in [18] from \({\text{leg}}4\); \({\text{a}}_{0} \_{\text{leg}}x\), regression coefficient for the 0th term of Legendre polynomial; \({\text{a}}_{1} \_{\text{leg}}x\), regression coefficient for the 1st term of the Legendre polynomial; \({\text{b}}_{1} \_{\text{leg}}4{\text{R}}2\), regression coefficient for the first eigenfunction; \({\text{b}}_{2} \_{\text{leg}}4{\text{R}}2\), regression coefficient for the second eigenfunction