Fig. 3

Predictive ability for carcass and meat quality traits. Each point corresponds to the mean predictive ability of a model with standard deviation, with different complexities (Full with all markers and operational taxonomic units (OTU), Informatively reduced with significant markers and OTU, and Randomly reduced with randomly selected markers and OTU). The last panel contains a summary of the prediction accuracies for all traits. Model M0 contains all fixed effects and only pen as random effect; M1 contains the animal genetic effect in addition to M0; M2 contains the microbiome effect at Wean, Mid-test and Off-test, in addition to M0. M3 contains the individual genomic as well as microbiome effects at Wean, Mid-test and Off-test, in addition to M0. M4 contains both the main effect of host genomic and microbiome effect as well as the interaction between them, in addition to M0