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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]