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Table 2.

Estimates of individual and maternal breed effects and heterosis effects on preweaning growth traits

Effects¹	Preweaning
Effects¹	Birth weight kg	Weaning weight kg	ADG kg/d
$g_{A}^{i}$	−0.06 ± 1.48	3.78 ± 7.17	0.04 ± 0.03
$g_{H}^{i}$	0.71 ± 1.69	2.06 ± 8.16	0.03 ± 0.04
$g_{C}^{i}$	−2.87 ± 2.07	11.45 ± 9.68	0.11 ± 0.04*
$g_{A}^{m}$	4.92 ± 0.99***	0.45 ± 4.91	−0.03 ± 0.02
$g_{H}^{m}$	5.25 ± 1.19***	−8.44 ± 5.90	−0.09 ± 0.03**
$g_{C}^{m}$	5.79 ± 1.61***	17.16 ± 7.82*	0.04 ± 0.03
$h_{t}^{i}$	0.81 ± 0.61	4.31 ± 2.91	0.02 ± 0.01
$h_{z}^{i}$	2.86 ± 0.73***	21.75 ± 3.49***	0.11 ± 0.01***
$h_{t}^{m}$	0.61 ± 0.53	10.48 ± 2.65***	0.05 ± 0.01***
$h_{z}^{m}$	1.19 ± 0.54*	27.05 ± 2.70***	0.13 ± 0.01***

¹ $g^{i}$ = individual breed effect; $g^{i}$ = maternal breed effect; $h^{i}$ = individual heterosis; $h^{m}$ = maternal heterosis; with subscripts A = Angus, C = Caracu, H = Hereford, t = taurine breed crosses, and z = taurine-indicine crosses.

*P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001.