Use of Bayes factors to evaluate the effects of host genetics, litter and cage on the rabbit cecal microbiota

Table 5 Bayes factors, marginal posterior means (standard deviations) of the heritability estimates for genera and alpha-diversity indices influenced by genetic effects

Trait	Mean (SD) h²	P (h² > 0.1)	\({\mathrm{BF}}_{{\mathrm{h}}^{2}}\)
Genus Methanobrevibacter	0.21 (0.13)	0.79	7.75
Genus Butyricimonas	0.27 (0.19)	0.79	4.39
Genus Odoribacter	0.19 (0.13)	0.71	3.50
Genus Bacteroides	0.29 (0.17)	0.87	13.88
Genus Parabacteroides	0.35 (0.17)	0.91	31.15
Genus Dehalobacterium	0.29 (0.19)	0.83	8.62
Genus Blautia	0.20 (0.12)	0.78	7.01
Genus Epulopiscium	0.17 (0.11)	0.70	5.85
Genus Phascolarctobacterium	0.19 (0.12)	0.73	10.22
Genus Oxalobacter	0.21 (0.13)	0.78	6.12
Number of OTU observed	0.28 (0.17)	0.84	7.30
Shannon	0.18 (0.13)	0.70	3.41

SD: standard deviation; \({\mathrm{BF}}_{{\mathrm{h}}^{2}}\): Bayes factor of the model with additive genetic effects against the same model without additive genetic effects

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