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Table 3.

Pearson correlations among dam and progeny performance and efficiency traits, and CVDS beef cow model outputs for parity 3

Trait	oMEL	oDMEI	oDEFF	oPFMEI	PWW	PSLW	WR	pMEL	pDMEI	pDEFF
MCWT	0.52^∗	0.65^∗	0.57^∗	−0.37^∗	0.44^∗	0.06	−0.53^∗	0.38^∗	0.66^∗	0.47^∗
oMEL		0.77^∗	0.55^∗	−0.52^∗	0.68^∗	0.19^∗	0.18^∗	0.59^∗	0.69^∗	0.25^∗
oDMEI			0.85^∗	−0.39	0.66^∗	0.15^∗	−0.04	0.57^∗	0.91^∗	0.58^∗
oDEFF				−0.48^∗	0.18^∗	0.07	−0.39^∗	0.14	0.70^∗	0.80^∗
oPFMEI					−0.03	0.16^∗	0.33^∗	−0.09	−0.26^∗	−0.33^∗
PWW						0.17^∗	0.49^∗	0.89^∗	0.72^∗	−0.05
PSLW							0.10	−0.28^∗	0.13	−0.01
WR								0.44^∗	0.04	−0.47^∗
pMEL									0.64^∗	−0.04
pDMEI										0.65^∗

oMEL, observed milk metabolizable energy (ME) yield; oDMEI, observed dam ME intake; oDEFF, observed biological efficiency (Mcal ME/ kg WW); oPFMEI, observed progeny preweaning feed ME intake; PWW, observed progeny weaning weight; PSLW, progeny slaughter weight; WR, ratio of observed progeny weaning weight to dam weight at weaning; pMEL, model predicted ME required for lactation; pDMEI, model predicted total ME required; pDEFF, model predicted biological efficiency

P ≤ 0.05