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Table 5 Estimated parameters of permanent environmental effects for litter piglet survival and birth weight traits and their residual correlations at the sow level

From: Evaluation of direct and maternal responses in reproduction traits based on different selection strategies for postnatal piglet survival in a selection experiment

Trait

NB

ABW

SDBW

SVLB

SVLNP

NB

0.04

− 0.43

− 0.93

0.44

0.09

(0.02 to 0.06)

(− 0.79 to − 0.04)

(− 1.00 to − 0.84)

(− 0.07 to 0.88)

(− 0.42 to 0.62)

Pr(pe2 > 0) = 100

Pr(rpe < 0) = 0.973

Pr(rpe < 0) = 1.00

Pr(rpe > 0) = 0.94

Pr(rpe > 0) = 0.63

ABW

− 0.56

0.15

0.27

− 0.15

0.09

(− 0.60 to − 0.52)

(0.06 to 0.24)

(− 0.15 to 0.67)

(− 0.77 to 0.46)

(− 0.49 to 0.65)

Pr(re < 0) = 1.00

Pr(pe2 > 0) = 100

Pr(rpe > 0) = 0.90

Pr(rpe < 0) = 0.69

Pr(rpe > 0) = 0.64

SDBW

0.12

− 0.28

0.21

− 0.19

− 0.07

(0.06 to 0.18)

(− 0.34 to − 0.22)

(0.09 to 0.34)

(− 0.76 to 0.34)

(− 0.57 to 0.46)

Pr(re > 0) = 1.00

Pr(re < 0) = 1.00

Pr(pe2 > 0) = 100

Pr(rpe < 0) = 0.75

Pr(rpe < 0) = 0.60

SVLB

− 0.15

0.19

− 0.11

0.06

0.29

(− 0.22 to − 0.09)

(0.13 to 0.26)

(− 0.17 to − 0.05)

(0.02 to 0.11)

(− 0.26 to 0.78)

Pr(re < 0) = 1.00

Pr(re > 0) = 1.00

Pr(re < 0) = 1.00

Pr(pe2 > 0) = 100

Pr(rpe > 0) = 0.85

SVLNP

− 0.21

0.28

− 0.15

0.05

0.09

(− 0.27 to − 0.15)

(0.22 to 0.34)

(− 0.21 to − 0.09)

(− 0.02 to 0.11)

(0.03 to 0.15)

Pr(re < 0) = 1.00

Pr(re > 0) = 1.00

Pr(re < 0) = 1.00

Pr(re > 0) = 0.92

Pr(pe2 > 0) = 100

  1. Estimated phenotypic proportions of permanent effects pe2 (on diagonal), correlations among permanent effects rpe (above the diagonal), residual correlation re (below the diagonal), including their 95% highest posterior density interval (in parentheses) and posterior probability of being positive Pr(. > 0) or negative Pr(. < 0) for sow productivity traits using a Bayesian multivariate analysis at the sow level