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Original article Multivariate restricted maximum likelihood estimation of genetic parameters for production traits in three selected turkey strains H M Y Chapuis1 Tixier-Boichard3Delabrosse2V Ducrocq1 Station1de génétique quantitative et appliquée, Institut national de la recherche agronomique, domaine de Vilvert, 7885,! Jouy-en-Josas cedex; Bétina2 Le Beau Chêne, Trédion, 56250 Elven; Sélection, Laboratoire3de génétique factorielle, Institut national de la recherche agronomique, domaine de Vilvert, 78852 Jouy-en-Josas cedex, France (Received 22 May 1995; accepted 5 December 1995) Summary - Genetic parameters related to growth, carcass composition and egg produc- tion were estimated on three (two female and one male) commercial strains of turkey using the method of restricted maximum likelihood (R.EML). In order to account for the sexual dimorphism in turkeys, body weight (BW,measured at 12 and 16 weeks of age) was con- sidered as a sex-limited trait. As many as seven traits were analyzed simultaneously in one strain. Egg numbers were normalized using a Box-Cox transformation. Three different ge- netic models were used. The first one was a linear mixed model with a direct genetic effect. Model 2 accounted in addition for a dam’s environmental effect, while model 3 introduced a maternal genetic effect. The heritability estimates of BW were very high, especially for female traits (0.77 for female BW16 and 0.68 for male BW16 in strain B). Sexual dimor- phism was less heritable (0.23, 0.16, and 0.14 for the 16 weeks body weight sex difference in the three strains considered). One of the female strains exhibited a strongly negative genetic correlation (-0.5) bet