Table 3. Heritability (±s.e.) for male morphotypes and female reproductive statuses estimated with four different statistical models.
Sex | Traits | Model | σA 2 (σS 2) | σE 2 | h2 (underlying) | h2 (observed) | |
Male | SM | 1 | Animal | 0.0733 | 0.0584 | 0.56±0.04 | |
2 | Sire | 0.01530 | 0.0981 | 0.54±0.05 | |||
3 | Logit | 1.041 | 1 | 0.96±0.09 | 0.42 | ||
4 | Probit | 0.315 | 1 | 0.98±0.09 | 0.43 | ||
OC | 1 | Animal | 0.0357 | 0.196 | 0.15±0.02 | ||
2 | Sire | 0.0123 | 0.214 | 0.22±0.03 | |||
3 | Logit | 0.2350 | 1 | 0.27±0.04 | 0.17 | ||
4 | Probit | 0.0892 | 1 | 0.33±0.05 | 0.21 | ||
BC | 1 | Animal | 0.0241 | 0.113 | 0.18±0.02 | ||
2 | Sire | 0.735×10−2 | 0.122 | 0.20±0.03 | |||
3 | Logit | 0.348 | 1 | 0.38±0.05 | 0.10 | ||
4 | Probit | 0.108 | 0.39±0.05 | 0.10 | |||
OBC | 1 | Animal | 0.0089 | 0.0491 | 0.15±0.02 | ||
2 | Sire | 0.421×10−2 | 0.0530 | 0.29±0.04 | |||
3 | Logit | 0.649 | 1 | 0.66±0.09 | 0.20 | ||
4 | Probit | 0.161 | 1 | 0.55±0.08 | 0.17 | ||
NC | 1 | Animal | 0.518×10−3 | 0.0454 | 0.015±0.007 | ||
2 | Sire | 0.364×10−3 | 0.0456 | 0.034±0.016 | |||
3 | Logit | 0.121 | 1 | 0.14±0.08 | 0.03 | ||
4 | Probit | 0.0239 | 1 | 0.09±0.06 | 0.02 | ||
Female | MOF | 1 | Animal | 0.225×10−4 | 0.187 | 0.001±0.003 | |
2 | Sire | 0.117×10−7 | 0.187 | n.e. | |||
3 | Logit | 0.287×10−4 | 1 | n.e. | |||
4 | Probit | 0.224×10−3 | 1 | 0.001±0.002 | |||
BF | 1 | Animal | 0.686×10−2 | 0.205 | 0.03±0.01 | ||
2 | Sire | 0.390×10−2 | 0.208 | 0.07±0.02 | |||
3 | Logit | 0.089 | 1 | 0.10±0.02 | 0.06 | ||
4 | Probit | 0.0326 | 1 | 0.13±0.07 | 0.08 | ||
SF | 1 | Animal | 0.0107 | 0.1994 | 0.05±0.01 | ||
2 | Sire | 0.486×10−2 | 0.204 | 0.09±0.02 | |||
3 | Logit | 0.112 | 1 | 0.13±0.03 | 0.08 | ||
4 | Probit | 0.414 | 1 | 0.16±0.03 | 0.10 |
1 = LMM animal model, 2 = LMM sire model, 3 = GLMM sire model using logit link function, and 4 = GLMM sire model using probit link function.
σA 2 = Genetic variance (model 1), σS 2 = Sire variance (models 2, 3 and 4) and σE 2 = Environmental variance, n.e. = non-estimable.
Trait abbreviation in Table 1.