Table 3.

Values for the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC)

Prior	Mean deviance	Penalty	Penalized deviance
Gamma	4186	82.68	4248
Half-normal	4194	75.93	4270
Half-Cauchy	4196	93.98	4289
Uniform	4198	68.77	4266

For each model DIC were calculated using each prior for the additive genetic variance. Their locations correspond to the best-fitted model (top) to the least-fitted (bottom).