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We are trying to estimate body mass (W) heritability and cross-sex genetic correlation using MCMCglmm. Our data matrix consists of three columns: ID, sex, and W. Body mass data is NOT normally distributed.
Following previous advice, we first separated weight data into two columns, WF and WM. WF listed weight data for female specimens and “NA” for males, and vice-versa in the WM column. We used the following prior and model combination:
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