. 2019 Dec 12;9(12):1136. doi: 10.3390/ani9121136

Table 9.

Correlations among calculated growth and methane traits adjusted for carbon dioxide *.

Trait ^‡	ADG/CO₂	r_wcADG	r_wgCO₂	CH₄/CO₂	r_wcCH₄
BW	0.09	0.00	0.00	0.13 ^c	0.00
	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.07	0.00
DMI	0.22 ^a	0.20 ^b	0.03	0.10	0.05
	0.20	0.19	0.08	0.12	0.09
ADG	0.89 ^a	0.88 ^a	0.00	0.14 ^c	0.08
	0.99 ^a	0.97 ^a	0.00	0.16	0.15
CH₄	0.08	0.04	0.49 ^a	0.58 ^a	0.51 ^a
	0.14	0.09	0.40 ^a	0.61 ^a	0.56 ^a
CO₂	0.03	0.00	0.62 ^a	0.09	0.00
	0.07	0.00	0.52 ^a	0.06	0.00
ADG/DMI	0.64 ^a	0.65 ^a	0.01	0.05	0.04
	0.97 ^a	0.96 ^a	−0.03	0.11	0.11
r_wiADG	0.91 ^a	0.94 ^a	−0.01	0.09	0.07
	0.97 ^a	0.95 ^a	−0.03	0.13	0.12
r_wgDMI	−0.02	−0.01	0.04	0.03	0.03
	−0.02	−0.02	0.10	0.06	0.08
CH₄/DMI	−0.17 ^b	−0.17 ^b	0.28 ^a	0.24 ^a	0.25 ^a
	−0.10	−0.14	0.24 ^c	0.33 ^b	0.32 ^b
r_wiCH₄	0.01	0.04	0.68 ^a	0.67 ^a	0.70 ^a
	0.17	0.08	0.56 ^a	0.79 ^a	0.79 ^a

* Galle heifers on first line, Borculo heifers on second line; ^a Correlation coefficient significantly different from zero at p < 0.001; ^b Correlation coefficient significantly different from zero at p < 0.01; ^c Correlation coefficient significantly different from zero at p < 0.05.