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Chunk #5 — Introduction — Empirical Evidence for Additive and Non-Additive Genetic Variance — Laboratory Animals and Livestock

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Data and theory point to mainly additive genetic variance for complex traits.
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The extensive data on experimental organisms show a range of heritability, higher for morphological than fitness associated traits, averaging as follows [21]: morphology - 0.46, physiology (e.g., oxygen consumption, resistance to heat stress) - 0.33, behaviour - 0.30, and life history - 0.26.