Table 2.

Maximum‐likelihood estimates of variance components for (A) embryo survival, and restricted maximum‐likelihood estimates of variance components for (B) hatching time, (C) hatchling length, (D) yolk sac volume at hatching, and (E) larval growth for each treatment, in addition to narrow‐sense heritabilities (h ²), mean‐scaled additive genetic variance (I _A), and coefficients of additive genetic variation (CV_A)

	V A	V Dam	V D	V block	V res	h2	I A	CVA
(A) Embryo survival
Control	<0.01	1.0	156.6***	0	3.3	<0.01	<0.0001	<0.01
EE2	0	3.4	125.8***	0	3.3	0	0	0
(B) Hatching time
Control	1.2***	2.2***	0	21.3***	3.7	0.04	0.0001	1.1
EE2	0.8***	2.3***	<0.01	20.6***	3.5	0.03	<0.0001	0.89
(C) Hatchling length
Control	0.04***	0.07***	<0.01	0.09***	0.09	0.14	0.0002	1.49
EE2	0.03***	0.08***	0	0.09***	0.08	0.13	0.0002	1.44
(D) Yolk sac volume at hatching
Control	0.03***	0.06***	0	0.07***	0.09	0.15	<0.0001	0.49
EE2	0.03***	0.06***	0	0.07***	0.08	0.15	<0.0001	0.47
(E) Larval growth
Control	0.02***	0.01***	0	0.02***	0.1	0.10	0.0354	6.0
EE2	0.01	0.01***	0	0.02***	0.1	0.05	0.0017	4.1

V _A: additive genetic; V _Dam: maternal; V _D: dominance; V _res: residual.

The significance of the variance components: ^* p < 0.05; ^** p < 0.01, ^*** p < 0.001.