Given this, the Mendelian sampling variance explained by the GEBV is comparable to that of a small progeny test.
The QTL detected in this study explain a small proportion of the phenotypic variance (≤ 10%), which is likely overestimated due to the relatively small progeny size [ 15].
Due to the presence of overlapping generations and the use of cow data with small progeny groups, selection candidates were randomly sampled from the full dataset.
When pseudo-phenotypes are derived from animals with small progeny numbers and are implemented in evaluations involving the two-step method, EBV tend to be less accurate.
In our study, the confidence interval is equivalent to ~92 kb, indicating that this region may be hot spot for recombination, which allowed the mapping of intragenic VvAGL11 markers in a small progeny set (Additional file 13).
These results also infer that cell size may show a maternal-like heritability, since small cells should tend to produce small progeny, which is similar to the cells with the old pole grow more slowly [ 19].> We also found that the variation in both the Svr- and the Mld-lineages decreased but to different extents.
Thus, the small progeny size of cross P (or D during simulations) decreased the sensitivity of QTL detection and resulted in an overestimation of the effect size of main QTLs (PPVE >9% per QTL), while QTLs of small effects remained undetected.
This may drive shape deformation and scission events that generate smaller progeny cells with more thermodynamically favourable surface-area-to-volume ratios.
Instead, the L-forms divide by a remarkable process of cell shape deformation, including blebbing, tubulation, and vesiculation, followed by spontaneous resolution (scission) into smaller progeny cells (Kandler and Kandler, 1954; Leaver et al., 2009).
It was easy to distinguish the donor small micromere progeny from the large micromere progeny when the large micromeres fused with non-fluorescent host mesoderm cells to form the skeletal syncytium thereby greatly diluting their fluorescence.
