Skip to main content

Table 8 Estimates of litter effect, permanent environment effect, and of heritabilities (standard errors in parenthesis) for the traitsa analyzed with a linear mixed model)

From: Genetic parameters of resistance to pasteurellosis using novel response traits in rabbits

Type of trait

Trait

Litter effect

Permanent environment effect

Heritability

Disease-relatedb

Abscess

0.07 (0.04)

–

0.13 (0.07)

Bacteria

–

–

0.08 (0.05)

Resistance

–

–

0.16 (0.06)

Growth

ADG-BW

0.47 (0.05)

–

0.11 (0.10)

ADG-PI1

–

–

0.29 (0.07)

ADG-PI2

–

–

0.20 (0.06)

Selection

WW

0.23 (0.02)

–

0.33 (0.06)

NBA

–

0.10 (0.02)

0.05(0.02)

  1. aADG average daily weight gain (g/day), BW from birth to weaning pre-inoculation, PI1 during first week post-inoculation, PI2 during second week post-inoculation, NBA number of kits born alive, WW weaning weight (g)
  2. bExpressed as a categorical variable with five levels [0–4]
Back to article page

Genetics Selection Evolution

ISSN: 1297-9686