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Genetic Evaluation of Growth Traits in New Synthetic Rabbit Line in Egypt

Open Journal of Agricultural Research | Vol 1, Issue 2

Table 5. Direct (G^I)and maternal (G^M) additive effects and their standard errors(± SE) for body weights andrelative growth rate (RGR).

Traits	Direct additive (G^I)		Maternal additive(G^M)
Body weights:	Units ± SE	G^I%	Units ± SE	G^M%

5 weeks	12.7 ± 6.4^**	2.8	31.1 ± 9.1^**	6.9
6 weeks	33.3 ± 12.5^**	6.0	52.1 ± 10.4^**	9.3
8 weeks	91.1 ± 17.4^**	12.0	122.6 ± 14.5^**	16.1
10 weeks	126.2 ± 23.6^**	12.3	153.5 ± 20.3^**	15.0
12 weeks	158.3 ± 28.1 ^**	12.7	171.2 ± 24.6 ^**	13.7
14 weeks	165.8 ± 38.8^**	11.3	155.7 ± 31.3^**	10.6
16 weeks	163.9 ± 47.8^**	10.1	105.1 ± 37.1 ^**	6.5
18 weeks	149.4 ± 53.5^**	9.0	69.0 ± 44.5^**	3.8
20 weeks	118.9 ± 58.6^**	5.8	28.3 ± 50.5^**	1.4

RGR at age intervals

5-6 week	3.3 ± 0.69^**	15.1	2.2 ± 0.58^**	10.1
6-8 weeks	3.9 ± 1.1^**	13.1	3.3 ± 0.91^**	11.1
8-10 week	2.7 ± 1.0^**	9.6	1.7 ± 0.88^ns	6.0
10-12 week	0.80 ± 0.73^ns	4.2	-0.11 ± 0.64 ^ns	-0.58
12-14 week	-0.30 ± 0.64^ns	-2.0	-1.0 ± 0.55^ns	-6.7
14-16 week	-0.29 ± 0.65 ^ns	-2.5	1.1± 0.56 ^*	9.4
16-18 week	-1.1 ± 0.54^*	-10.0	-1.8 ± 0.45 ^**	-16.3
18-20 week	-1.4 ± 0.45^**	-13.5	-1.4 ± 0.38^**	-13.5
5-20 week	7.5 ± 2.3^**	6.1	0.60 ± 2.0^ns	0.48