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Table 3 Results of animal models estimating heritability for the proportion of orange and yellow throat colouration (design size, N = 102; see methods for details)

From: The genetic basis of discrete and quantitative colour variation in the polymorphic lizard, Ctenophorus decresii

Response variable

Animal variance

Residual variance

Phenotypic variance

Heritability h2 ± SE

95 % confidence limits

Proportion orange

10.80

2.11

12.91

0.84 ± 0.14

0.55 –1.12

Proportion yellow

8.20

4.05

12.25

0.67 ± 0.19

0.30 –1.04