Based on observed length of lag phases, length of the degradation periods and percent degradation, the variation among the 8 localities appears to be modest.
PL is a measure of the observed length of time that a cow stays in the herd, from first calving to culling, and PTA is an estimate of half of the breeding value of a bull, which is a smoothed average assuming additive inheritance.
Some of these clusters were found to extend to large regions on the corresponding linkage groups, for example, on linkage group 2, it at least covered a genetic length of 59 cM (more than 30% of the genetic length of this linkage group); on linkage group 12, it extended to a genetic length about 46 cM (about 65% of the observed length of this linkage group).
The compression and/or extensions of the TpLRR segments contributed to most of the observed length diversity but variation of other type of sequences are also involved including non-LRR repeats, TMD and CT, indicating an evolutionary highly dynamic gene family and suggesting that these proteins play several distinct functions.
As expected from the highly significant correlation between these two variables, this regression model can explain substantial amount of the observed length variation (the R of this model is 0.41).
The new combined degradation model estimates the length of the plume with 10 m of the observed length; core only and fringe only solutions overestimate the length by more than a factor of 2.
We attempted a correlation of the observed length variations with domain contexts and nature of domain associations for each length-deviant and length-rigid domain superfamily.
A weak positive correlation (ρ = 0.15, P = 0.0337) was detected for RAA; these regions account for most of the observed length variation.
The deviation of the observed length l i,k from this expectation, δ i,k = exp(ε i,k), can be attributed to multiple causes including the error of edge length estimation and local change of evolution rate.
