Table 4.

Predictive ability and standard deviations of kernel-based models, including genetic effects (model G), microbiota effects (model M), and both genetics and microbiota (model GM), using microbiota at 140 d

		Model G		Model M		Model GM
Trait	Unit	$\rho ({\mathrm{y}}^{\ast },\mathrm{E}\mathrm{B}\mathrm{V})$	MSEP	$\rho (y^{\ast },EMV)$	MSEP	$\rho ({\mathrm{y}}^{\ast },\mathrm{E}\mathrm{B}\mathrm{V}+\mathrm{E}\mathrm{M}\mathrm{V})$	MSEP
ADG	g	0.34$\pm$0.22	0.006 ± 0.002	0.25$\pm$0.25	0.006 ± 0.002	0.38$\pm$0.22	0.006 ± 0.002
ADFI	kg	0.22$\pm$0.24	0.100 ± 0.032	0.22$\pm$0.24	0.100 ± 0.031	0.27$\pm$0.23	0.100 ± 0.031
FCR	kg/kg	0.06$\pm$0.26	0.294 ± 0.185	0.17$\pm$0.22	0.288 ± 0.181	0.14$\pm$0.23	0.291 ± 0.182
BW180	kg	0.36$\pm$0.23	86.14 ± 29.93	0.43$\pm$0.23	86.04 ± 28.24	0.48$\pm$0.22	80.66 ± 27.52
RFI	kg	0.07$\pm$0.26	0.067 ± 0.033	0.28$\pm$0.21	0.063 ± 0.030	0.25$\pm$0.22	0.061 ± 0.031
FPV	g	0.47$\pm$0.22	1666 ± 657.7	0.33$\pm$0.24	1915 ± 853.0	0.51$\pm$0.20	1615 ± 650.8
FR	g/min	0.20$\pm$0.25	42.32 ± 13.61	0.13$\pm$0.27	44.98 ± 16.18	0.23$\pm$0.21	43.17 ± 14.43
NVD	visits/day	0.40$\pm$0.26	9.033 ± 5.298	0.32$\pm$0.25	9.605 ± 5.233	0.44$\pm$0.25	8.777 ± 5.048
TPV	sec/visit	0.48$\pm$0.20	7374 ± 5457	0.20$\pm$0.24	9260 ± 7551	0.44$\pm$0.20	7687 ± 5804

ADG, average daily gain; ADFI, daily feed intake; FCR, feed conversion ratio; BW180, body weight at 180 d; RFI, residual feed intake; FPV, feed intake per visit; FR, feeding rate; NVD, number of visits per day; TPV, time spent in feeding per visit;

$\rho (y^{\ast },EBV)$ = correlation between adjusted phenotype and estimated breeding value; $\rho (y^{\ast },EMV)$ = correlation between adjusted phenotype and estimated microbiota value; MSEP, mean squared error of prediction.