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. 2013 Jun 11;110(26):10693–10698. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1300954110

Table 1.

Additive (VA) and nonadditive (VD) genetic variance components, phenotypic variance (VP), and heritability (h2) of female-mediated effects on ejaculate quality and handling, controlled for block and vial effects

Trait N VA VD VP h2 LLR P
Thorax length* 484 1.29 0 5.44 0.24 8.2 0.09
Absolute SR length*, 484 0.02 0.006 0.04 0.50 49.4 <0.0001
Relative SR length*, 484 0.02 0.006 0.04 0.54 50.3 <0.0001
Day of remating 1,585 0.06 0.03 0.46 0.14 18.2 0.0001
Progeny before remating (E) 1,572 329.6 0 340.5 0.97 386.6 <0.0001
Progeny before remating (P)* 487 436 0 485 0.90 46.3 <0.0001
Duration of copulation 1,573 1.63 0 34.24 0.05 7.9 0.24
Resident sperm at remating 1,115 9,729 965 20,815 0.47 61.8 0.0003
Number of sperm transferred 1,104 0 0 65,502 0.00 0.0 1.0
Time to ejection 1,277 0.05 0 0.14 0.36 65.3 <0.0001
Mean sperm velocity* 536 130 0 1,044 0.13 4.7 0.32
First-male sperm stored 1,272 599 108 4,853 0.12 8.1 0.044
Second-male sperm stored 1,272 1,955 0 10,395 0.19 16.1 0.001
Total sperm stored 1,228 2,737 0 13,697 0.20 28.0 <0.0001
S2 (pre-ejection) 1,104 0.003 0 0.007 0.36 66.6 <0.0001
S2 (postejection) 1,272 0.001 0 0.010 0.14 20.1 0.0005
S2 in SR (postejection) 1,241 0.008 0 0.025 0.29 64.2 <0.0001
Prop. first-male sperm in SR 1,293 0.008 0.0004 0.020 0.43 78.9 <0.0001
Prop. second-male sperm in SR 1,296 0.002 0 0.009 0.19 16.0 0.001
Second-male paternity (P2)* 419 0.005 0.001 0.028 0.17 7.8 0.051

For further details, see Materials and Methods, Statistical Analyses. E, ejection experiment; P, paternity experiment. Boldface indicates traits with significant heritability.

*

Based on one female per family (i.e., maximum n = 6 per isoline cross).

Controlled for female thorax length as a fixed effect (t = 2.42, P = 0.016).

Proportion of second-male sperm among all resident first-male sperm and the entire second-male ejaculate.