Accuracy of the unified approach in maternally influenced traits - illustrated by a simulation study in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)

Table 4 The accuracy of direct and maternal EBV in case of 500 juvenile queens and 2550 all queens in the pedigree

h _m ²	Method	Corr_(m,d)	Accuracy of direct EBV for JQ (SE)	Accuracy of maternal EBV for JQ (SE)	Accuracy of direct EBV for AQ (SE)	Accuracy of maternal EBV for AQ (SE)
0.15	UNI	0	0.323 ^a,b,c,d (0.015)	0.279 ^a,b,c,d (0.015)	0.446 ^a,b,c,d (0.011)	0.420 ^a,b,c,d (0.009)
	PED	0	0.227 (0.023)	0.225 (0.019)	0.406 (0.012)	0.381 (0.010)
	UNI	−0.46	0.115 ^b,d (0.023)	0.127 ^b (0.031)	0.225 ^b,d (0.018)	0.223 ^b,d (0.013)
	PED	−0.46	0.059 (0.025)	0.103 (0.030)	0.186 (0.016)	0.208 (0.012)
0.25	UNI	0	0.373 ^a,b,c (0.016)	0.330 ^a,b,c,e (0.014)	0.510 ^b,c,e (0.013)	0.482 ^a,b,c,e (0.010)
	PED	0	0.268 (0.021)	0.260 (0.018)	0.474 (0.013)	0.447 (0.011)
	UNI	−0.46	0.154 ^b (0.023)	0.154 ^b (0.031)	0.272 ^b (0.017)	0.257 ^b (0.014)
	PED	−0.46	0.085 (0.025)	0.125 (0.030)	0.231 (0.016)	0.240 (0.013)
0.35	UNI	0	0.418 ^a,b,d (0.017)	0.371 ^a,b,d,e (0.014)	0.566 ^b,d,e (0.015)	0.527 ^b,d,e (0.011)
	PED	0	0.307 (0.018)	0.287 (0.017)	0.538 (0.015)	0.496 (0.013)
	UNI	−0.46	0.186 ^a,b,d (0.024)	0.173 ^b (0.031)	0.308 ^b,d (0.017)	0.280 ^b,d (0.015)
	PED	−0.46	0.110 (0.025)	0.138 (0.030)	0.268 (0.016)	0.258 (0.014)

EBV, Estimated breeding values; h_m², Maternal heritability; UNI, UNI_BLUP; PED, PED_BLUP; Corr_(m,d), Correlation between maternal and direct effects; JQ, Juvenile queens; AQ, All queens; SE, Standard error.
Significant difference in accuracy with P < 0.05 (Welch’s t-test) between: ^aUNI_BLUP and PED_BLUP; ^bno correlation and negative correlation for UNI_BLUP; ^cheritabilities 0.15 and 0.25 for UNI_BLUP; ^dheritabilities 0.15 and 0.35 for UNI_BLUP; ^eheritabilities 0.25 and 0.35 for UNI_BLUP.

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