Heritability Summary for
Ictalurus punctatus
| Main ref. | |||||
| Country | USA |
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| Locality | Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi |
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| Trait | growth rate |
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| Comment | Body weight at 40 weeks reared in indoor tanks. |
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| Mean | 179.00000 |
Unit |
grams |
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| S.D | 81.00000 |
C.V |
0.45 |
S.E |
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| Heritability | 0.58000 |
Method |
sib analysis |
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| Comment | Heritability estimated from the sire component of variance. |
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| Selection studies | |||||
| Response (%) | 20 |
Method | family and within family selection |
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| Comment | |||||