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Table 3 Estimatesa of heritabilities and correlations obtained in the bivariate analyses

From: Resistance to viral nervous necrosis in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.): heritability and relationships with body weight, cortisol concentration, and antibody titer

Trait 1 Trait 2 Trait 1 Trait 2 Correlations
\({\sigma }_{a}^{2}\) \({\sigma }_{p}^{2}\) \({h}^{2}\)(HPD95% \({\sigma }_{a}^{2}\) \({\sigma }_{p}^{2}\) \({h}^{2}\)(HPD95% \({r}_{p}\)(HPD95%) \({r}_{a}\)(HPD95%) P
MORT BW 0.26 1.13 0.228 (0.057, 0.468) 879 1953 0.451 (0.245, 0.702) − 0.085 (− 0.215, 0.044) − 0.388 (− 0.878, 0.198) 0.884
MORT SHRC 0.25 1.13 0.223 (0.058, 0.455) 4.5 19.2 0.237 (0.078, 0.449) 0.020 (− 0.107, 0.148) − 0.078 (− 0.746, 0.625) 0.578
MORT AT 0.27 1.13 0.236 (0.063, 0.467) 336 1030 0.328 (0.158, 0.539) − 0.022 (− 0.149, 0.099) − 0.388 (− 0.866, 0.191) 0.886
SHRC AT 3.6 18.6 0.196 (0.068, 0.366) 424 1079 0.394 (0.189, 0.635) − 0.035 (− 0.136, 0.070) 0.115 (− 0.420, 0.631) 0.815
SHRC BW 3.6 18.6 0.193 (0.066, 0.358) 1268 2148 0.592 (0.354, 0.851) − 0.023 (− 0.134, 0.090) 0.268 (− 0.275, 0.773) 0.652
AT BW 410 1069 0.384 (0.175, 0.631) 1290 2160 0.599 (0.361, 0.859) 0.249 (0.134, 0.366) 0.490 (0.085, 0.814) 1.000
  1. MORT post-challenge VNN mortality as a binary trait (0: alive, 1: dead), BW body weight (g) at 548 d post-hatching, SRHC square root of serum cortisol concentration (ng0.5/ml0.5), AT antibody titer (sample to positive ratio of the optical density values, OD 450 nm)
  2. aThe median of the marginal posterior density has been used as a point estimate of parameters; (co)variance components were estimated with bivariate sire-dam models when mortality was one of the analysed traits or with bivariate animal models when mortality was not considered. A probit model was used for mortality. \({\sigma }_{a}^{2}\): additive genetic variance; \({\sigma }_{p}^{2}\): phenotypic variance; \({r}_{p}\): phenotypic correlation; \({r}_{a}\): additive genetic correlation
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