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Table 2 Estimated heritabilities and maternal environmental effects (standard errors in parentheses) for IgM, IgG, and total (IgTotal) KLH-binding natural antibody titers

From: Divergent selection for natural antibodies in poultry in the presence of a major gene

 

IgM

IgG

IgTotal

Phenotypic variance (\({\sigma }_{p}^{2}\))

1.15(0.02)

1.95(0.03)

1.85(0.03)

Heritability (\({h}^{2}\))

0.30(0.02)

0.12(0.01)

0.12(0.01)

Maternal environmental effects (\({m}^{2}\))

0.03(0.01)

0.02(0.01)

0.03(0.01)