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. 2016 Aug 8;6:31060. doi: 10.1038/srep31060

Table 1. Heritability (h 2 ) of FID and its standard error (SE) estimated from the midparent-midoffspring and mother/father-offspring regressions for urban and rural burrowing owls.

Parent-offspring Rural Urban Total
h2 0.69*** 0.39** 0.64****
SE 0.22 0.14 0.11
n 15 66 81
  rural-urban rural-total urban-total
z 1.15 0.20 −1.40
P 0.2501 0.8415 0.1615
father-offspring rural urban total
h2 0.75** 0.15ns 0.43***
SE 0.37 0.22 0.19
n 20 83 103
  rural-urban rural-total urban-total
z 1.40 0.78 −0.97
P 0.1615 0.4354 0.3320
mother-offspring rural urban total
h2 0.80** 0.37* 0.63****
SE 0.36 0.26 0.22
n 20 76 96
  rural-urban rural-total urban-total
z 0.97 0.40 −0.76
P 0.3320 0.6892 0.4473
  father-mother rural father-mother urban father-mother
z −0.10 −0.65 −0.69
P 0.9203 0.5157 0.4902

Significance of the estimate is shown (****P < 0.0001; ***P < 0.001; **P < 0.01; *P < 0.05; ns: P > 0.05). Heritability values are compared through z-test (z). n: sample size.

Values corrected for assortative mating: rurban birds = 0.61, rrural birds = 0.72, rall birds = 0.78.