Table 2 Estimates of direct additive genetic variance (\(\sigma_{a}^{2}\)), heritability (\(h^{2}\)) and permanent environmental maternal effect (\(c^{2}\)) estimated from male and female body weight (BW) at weeks 5 and 6 in breeding (B) and commercial production (C) environments

From: Use of genomic information to exploit genotype-by-environment interactions for body weight of broiler chicken in bio-secure and production environments