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. 2015 Apr 7;8(4):449–452. doi: 10.14202/vetworld.2015.449-452

Table-2.

Heritability estimates of various traits from sire, dam, and “sire+dam” components of variance and their standard errors.

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Egg weight (g) 0.443±0.160 0.277±0.232 0.360±0.131
Egg length (mm) 0.679±0.202 0.231±0.217 0.455±0.140
Egg width (mm) 0.868±0.239 0.332±0.205 0.601±0.150
Shape index (%) 0.860±0.232 0.007±0.204 0.433±0.148
Egg surface area 0.799±0.223 0.178±0.208 0.488±0.145
Shell weight (g) 0.058±0.091 0.223±0.257 0.141±0.124
Shell thickness (mm) 0.149±0.116 0.743±0.256 0.446±0.126
Shell ratio (%) 0.101±0.104 0.579±0.257 0.340±0.124
Albumen length (mm) 0.337±0.150 0.747±0.244 0.542±0.130
Albumen width (mm) 0.895±0.250 0.671±0.207 0.783±0.154
Albumen height (mm) 0.436±0.164 0.584±0.236 0.510±0.132
Albumen weight (g) 0.460±0.171 0.685±0.235 0.572±0.134
Albumen index (%) 0.528±0.176 0.273±0.227 0.401±0.134
Albumen ratio (%) 0.220±0.119 0.234±0.247 0.227±0.126
Haugh unit 0.643±0.194 0.144±0.218 0.394±0.138
Yolk length (mm) 0.114±0.105 0.335±0.254 0.225±0.124
Yolk width (mm) 0.201±0.115 0.184±0.247 0.193±0.125
Yolk diameter (mm) 0.295±0.141 0.694±0.246 0.494±0.129
Yolk height (mm) 0.751±0.225 0.736±0.218 0.743±0.147
Yolk weight (g) 0.740±0.217 0.413±0.214 0.577±0.144
Yolk index (%) 0.807±0.228 0.374±0.209 0.590±0.147
Yolk ratio (%) 0.275±0.141 0.921±0.250 0.598±0.129

Inline graphic Heritability from sire component of variance, Inline graphic Heritability from dam component of variance, Inline graphic Heritability from “sire+dam” component of variance