Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 5 Phenotypic and genotypic correlations of body weight for all crossbred kits

From: Effects of genotype, gestation length and litter size on the birth weight, litter weight, pre- and post-weaning weight of crossbred kits

	INDBW	LITBW	BW at day 21	BW at day 35
INDBW		− 0.04ns	0.87**	0.74**
LITBW	− 0.19ns		− 0.32**	− 0.45**
BW at day 21	0.78**	− 0.53**		0.91**
BW at day 35	0.69**	− 0.59**	0.92**

INDBW individual birth weight, LITBW litter birth weight, BW21 body weight at 21st day, BW35 body weight at 35th day
ns not significant (P > 0.05), **highly significant (P < 0.01)

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