. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Primatol. 2010 Sep;72(9):811–819. doi: 10.1002/ajp.20843

TABLE 2.

Summary of heritability estimates for reproductive traits of captive female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) estimated with an animal model.

Trait	V_R	V_A	V_TP	V_AP	h² (se)^c	Prob
Early reproduction
Age at 1^st infant	0.681	0.141	0.865	0.822	0.171 (0.062)	0.001
BI after 1^st infant	0.382	0.000	0.410	0.382	0.000 (0.072)	0.106
Age at 2^nd infant	0.966	0.147	1.188	1.114	0.132 (0.077)	0.084
BI after 2^nd infant	0.247	0.026	0.281	0.273	0.095 (0.098)	0.336
Birth intervals
All BI	0.291	0.011	0.314	0.302	0.036 (0.010)	<.001
Mean BI	0.182	0.027	0.212	0.209	0.129 (0.087)	0.177
Interval from last infant to female death	1.137	0.176	1.345	1.313	0.134 (0.148)	0.461
Longevity ^a; Productivity
Age at death	11.455	5.513	19.009	16.969	0.325 (0.143)	0.001
Age at last infant	12.823	4.202	18.576	17.025	0.247 (0.141)	0.040
No. of infants born at female’s death	8.724	2.472	11.972	11.197	0.221 (0.138)	0.005
Infant survival ^b
Birth status (alive, dead)	0.03500	0.00076	0.0400	0.03576	0.021 (0.008)	0.009
Survival; birth to 30 d	0.04190	0.00338	0.0455	0.04528	0.075 (0.011)	<.001
Survival; 30 d to 1 yr	0.14058	0.00385	0.1521	0.14443	0.027 (0.008)	<.001

Based on females born before 1991.

Heritability estimates based on analysis of binomial observations with a linear animal model. Variances shown are from the analysis of binomial observations.

Heritability calculated with adjusted phenotypic variance (V_AP). Total unadjusted phenotypic variance is shown as V_TP.