Growth resilience to weather variation in commercial free-ranging chickens in Ethiopia

BMC Genomics

Table 4 Estimates and summary statistics of the coefficients for the individual deviation norms by weather variable

		a₀			a₁			a₂
		M	SEM	σ	M	SEM	σ	M	SEM	σ
Weekly mean	Maximum daily temperature	0.058	0.039	1.564	-0.001	0.006	0.230	-0.024	0.011	0.423
	Minimum daily temperature	0.061	0.039	1.541	-0.015	0.008	0.322	0.004	0.004	0.159
	Average daily temperature	0.050	0.038	1.526	-0.002	0.001	0.042	-0.060	0.016	0.648
	Average daily humidity	0.045	0.034	1.366	-0.064	0.021	0.847	-0.003	0.007	0.273
	Average daily THI	0.043	0.040	1.582	0.004	0.001	0.055	-0.038	0.009	0.377
	Average daily precipitation	0.054	0.038	1.511	-0.013	0.011	0.456	-0.013	0.008	0.338
Weekly variance	Maximum daily temperature	0.061	0.043	1.700	0.005	0.003	0.114	-0.002	0.002	0.079
	Minimum daily temperature	0.057	0.041	1.637	-0.002	0.002	0.075	0.017	0.009	0.348
	Average daily temperature	0.062	0.043	1.705	0.004	0.003	0.100	-0.007	0.005	0.205
	Average daily humidity	0.048	0.040	1.594	-0.001	< 0.001	0.017	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Average daily THI	0.062	0.041	1.652	0.002	0.001	0.044	-0.006	0.004	0.170
	Average daily precipitation	0.040	0.036	1.443	-0.007	0.005	0.214	< 0.001	0.001	0.021

a_o, a₁, a₂ are intercept, linear, and quadratic terms, respectively; summary statistics are median (M), standard error of the mean (SEM) and standard deviation (σ) calculated across all individuals

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