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Table 2 Analyses of variance of body weight of the F2 from rusty plumage and curly feather quail lines

From: Two new plumage mutations in the Japanese quail: "curly" feather and "rusty" plumage

Age

At hatch

1 week

3 weeks

5 weeks

Sample size1

348

348

346

347

Mean body weight (g) (SD)

8.1 (0.8)

27.6 (4.5)

105.7 (12.5)

176.7 (17.0)

R2

0.82

0.45

0.47

0.50

Significance of main effects

Hatch

**

ns

***

***

Family

***

***

***

***

Sex

**

ns

ns

***

Feather structure

ns

ns

**

***

Plumage color

ns

***

**

*

Contrast (g)

"curly" – "wild-type"

-0.08ns

0.8ns

3.8**

6.1***

"rusty" – "wild-type"

0.04ns

-2.1***

-3.6**

-4.1*

  1. 1: The quail sample was made up of 215 wild-type, 59 curly, 58 rusty, and 16 curly and rusty quail from 17 full-sib families and born in two successive hatches. *: p < 0.05; **: p < 0.01; ***: p < 0.001; ns: not significant.
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BMC Genomic Data

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