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

Table 3 The accuracy of overall EBV (the sum of maternal and direct breeding values) in case of 500 juvenile queens and all 2550 queens in the pedigree

h _m ²	Method	Corr_(m,d)	Accuracy for JQ (SE)	Accuracy for AQ (SE)
0.15	UNI	0	0.468 ^a,b,c,d (0.010)	0.661 ^a,b,c,d (0.005)
	PED	0	0.363 (0.017)	0.603 (0.007)
	UNI	−0.46	0.381 ^a,b,c,d (0.021)	0.555 ^a,b,c,d (0.010)
	PED	−0.46	0.295 (0.023)	0.489 (0.009)
0.25	UNI	0	0.542 ^a,b,c,e (0.009)	0.756 ^a,b,c,e (0.006)
	PED	0	0.420 (0.015)	0.710 (0.008)
	UNI	−0.46	0.449 ^a,b,c (0.018)	0.640 ^a,b,c,e (0.009)
	PED	−0.46	0.348 (0.021)	0.577 (0.008)
0.35	UNI	0	0.604 ^a,b,d,e (0.009)	0.832 ^a,b,d,e (0.008)
	PED	0	0.467 (0.012)	0.800 (0.010)
	UNI	−0.46	0.498 ^a,b,d (0.017)	0.700 ^a,b,d,e (0.008)
	PED	−0.46	0.388 (0.019)	0.642 (0.008)

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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