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. 2011 Mar 8;4(4):602–615. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00184.x

Table 2.

Variance estimates (VA = additive genetic variance, VE = permanent environmental variance, Ve = residual variance) and resulting repeatabilities and heritabilities for body size and growth rate for length [95% credible interval]

VA VE Ve Repeatability Heritability
Body size 0.054 0.099 0.063 0.73 [0.63: 0.78] 0.25 [0.13: 0.48]
Growth 0.052 0.082 0.33 0.29 [0.19: 0.40] 0.11 [0.055: 0.22]