From: Search for QTL affecting the shape of the egg laying curve of the Japanese quail
Curve type | Trait (definition) | Mean | Standard deviation | Minimum | Maximum |
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Model 1 [4] (N = 354) | b (weekly rate of decrease in egg laying after peak) | 0.0160 | 0.0416 | -0.0068 | 0.3654 |
c (indicator of 1/variance in sexual maturity) | 3.223 | 3.155 | 0.1665 | 22.20 | |
d (number of weeks in test until sexual maturity) | 4.186 | 4.842 | 0.6212 | 46.33 | |
Model 2 [6] (N = 352) | y P (3-week production at the egg laying plateau) | 18.98 | 1.615 | 8.329 | 23.46 |
t 2 (number of weeks in test until egg laying plateau) | 5.272 | 1.935 | 2.299 | 20.25 | |
b4(weekly rate of change in egg laying after the plateau) | -0.3497 | 0.5767 | -4.698 | 0 | |
Model 3 [7] (N = 308) | k1 (proportion of peak production during the increasing phase of the curve) | 0.8530 | 0.0944 | 0.3500 | 1.000 |
k2(proportion of peak production during the decreasing phase of the curve) | 0.6056 | 0.3082 | 0 | 0.992 | |
c2 (duration of peak egg production) | 37.38 | 10.08 | 4.779 | 56.61 |