Table 1.

Subject data: body mass was measured directly from the cadavers and limb muscle mass was determined by adding the masses of all pelvic limb muscles removed from the leg.

	Juvenile Junglefowl	Adult Junglefowl	Pureline A	Pureline B	Pureline C	Pureline D	Broiler
n (sample size)	10	10	5	5	5	5	10
Age (weeks)	6	15	6	6	6	6	6
Body mass (kg)	0.63 ± 0.02*	1.94 ± 0.1*	3.20 ± 0.05*	2.82 ± 0.02*	2.52 ± 0.05*	2.37 ± 0.08*	2.79 ± 0.06*
Limb muscle mass (% bodyweight)	5.69 ± 0.1*	7.73 ± 0.5*	7.04 ± 0.5	6.58 ± 0.2	6.16 ± 0.6	7.31 ± 1.1	6.27 ± 0.1

Measured values reported are means ± SEM.

^*Significant differences at the 0.05 level.