Table 2.
Genetic parameters for the three traits in Blonde d’Aquitaine and Limousin cattle
| Blonde d’Aquitaine | Limousin | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trait | US | MB | MY | US | MB | MY |
| US | 0.470 (0.099) | 0.312 (0.240) | 0.572 (0.151) | 0.640 (0.121) | 0.790 (0.228) | 0.994 (0.072) |
| MB | 0.042 | 0.135 (0.067) | 0.584 (0.244) | 0.194 | 0.108 (0.068) | 0.720 (0.260) |
| MY | 0.281 | 0.163 | 0.331 (0.092) | 0.305 | 0.161 | 0.455 (0.113) |
Heritabilities are underlined on the diagonal, genetic correlations are above the diagonal with standard errors in brackets, phenotypic correlations are in italics below the diagonal (standard errors ranging from 0.03 to 0.04)
MB maternal behavior, US udder score, MY milk yield