Heritability and Variance Component Estimates of Meat Quality in Japanese Quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)
TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY & ANIMAL SCIENCES, vol.33, no.2, pp.89-94, 2009 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus, TRDizin)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 33 Issue: 2
- Publication Date: 2009
- Doi Number: 10.3906/vet-0603-30
- Journal Name: TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY & ANIMAL SCIENCES
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Page Numbers: pp.89-94
- Keywords: Heritability, ML, REML, MIVQUE
- Akdeniz University Affiliated: No
Abstract
A comparison of 3 methods for variance component estimation to compute the heritability of meat quality characteristics (body weight, breast meat weight, breast yield, l, a, b, c, h, and ph) was performed using the methods of maximum likelihood (ML), restricted maximum likelihood (REML), and minimum variance quadratic unbiased estimator (MIVQUE).