Resistance to viral nervous necrosis in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.): heritability and relationships with body weight, cortisol concentration, and antibody titer

Table 2 Univariate estimates of additive genetic variance (\({\sigma }_{a}^{2}\)) and heritability (\({h}^{2}\)) for the investigated traits

Trait	\(^{a}{\sigma }_{a}^{2}\)	\(^{a}{h}^{2}\)	P (\({h}^{2}\)> 0.1)	HPD95%
MORT	0.146	0.14	0.697	0.016, 0.307
BW	1198	0.57	1.000	0.331, 0.838
SRHC	3.421	0.19	0.933	0.065, 0.342
AT	372	0.36	0.999	0.163, 0.592

MORT post-challenge mortality (0: alive, 1: dead), BW body weight (g) at 548 days post-hatching, SRHC square root of serum cortisol concentration (ng^0.5/ml^0.5), AT antibody titer (sample to positive ratio of the optical density values, OD 450 nm)
^aThe median of the marginal posterior density has been used as a point estimate of the parameter
P (\({h}^{2}\)> 0.1): probability of \({h}^{2}\)> 0.1

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