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Table 4 Estimates of genetic correlations between traits in purebreds with their standard error in parentheses for the WA line (below the diagonal) and the BD line (above the diagonal)

From: Using egg production longitudinal recording to study the genetic background of resilience in purebred and crossbred laying hens

WA\BD

EP

LNVAR

SKEW

AUTO-R

EP

 

− 0.83 (0.04)

0.49 (0.15)

0.38 (0.11)

LNVAR

− 0.72 (0.04)

 

− 0.67 (0.11)

0.14 (0.10)

SKEW

− 0.05 (0.09)

− 0.46 (0.07)

 

− 0.55 (0.15)

AUTO-R

0.25 (0.09)

− 0.01 (0.08)

− 0.21 (0.09)

 
  1. EP total number of eggs laid per layer between 25 and 83 weeks of age, LNVAR natural logarithm of the variance of the deviations between the observed phenotype and the average of the batch, SKEW skewness of the distribution of these deviations, AUTO-R lag-one autocorrelation of these deviations