Table 2.
Genetic parameter estimates ± SE of the total number of embryos and oocytes (TNE) and the number of good embryos (NGE) using untransformed, log-transformed, and Anscombe-transformed data
| Transformation | Trait | rep2 | rg | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Untransformed | TNE | 29.18 ± 5.02 | 11.74 ± 3.53 | 69.65 ± 0.74 | 0.26 ± 0.04 | 0.37 ± 0.01 | 0.71 ± 0.08 |
| NGE | 6.11 ± 1.27 | 3.49 ± 0.92 | 26.85 ± 0.29 | 0.17 ± 0.03 | 0.26 ± 0.01 | ||
| Logarithm | TNE | 0.16 ± 0.03 | 0.07 ± 0.02 | 0.49 ± 0.01 | 0.22 ± 0.04 | 0.32 ± 0.01 | 0.60 ± 0.09 |
| NGE | 0.15 ± 0.03 | 0.06 ± 0.02 | 0.63 ± 0.01 | 0.18 ± 0.03 | 0.25 ± 0.01 | ||
| Anscombe | TNE | 1.81 ± 0.31 | 0.73 ± 0.22 | 4.39 ± 0.05 | 0.26 ± 0.04 | 0.37 ± 0.01 | 0.65 ± 0.08 |
| NGE | 0.98 ± 0.19 | 0.43 ± 0.13 | 3.90 ± 0.04 | 0.18 ± 0.03 | 0.27 ± 0.01 |
, additive genetic variance, permanent environmental variance; , error variance; , heritability; rep2, repeatability; rg, genetic correlation.