Table 3.
Mean reproductive parameters for females without litter.
| Cross | No. of females | Body weight g (SE) | ROW1 mg/g (SE) | Smaller follicles x102 (SE) | Larger follicles x102 (SE) | Corpora lutea (SE) | Placental scars (SE) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Controls (produced a litter) | 20 | 13.2 (0.2) | 0.41 (0.01) | 77.6 (3.8) | 7.2 (0.6) | 21.2 (1.3) | 7.2 (0.4) |
| Hybrids (produced a litter) | 73 | 13.1 (0.2) | 0.38 (0.01) | 52.1 (1.8) | 7.5 (0.3) | 16.6 (0.7) | 6.6 (0.3) |
| Controls (produced no litter) | 1 | 13.9 ( − ) | 0.41 ( − ) | 109.6 ( − ) | 7.2 ( − ) | 22.0 ( − ) | 0.0 ( − ) |
| Hybrids (produced no litter) | 12 | 12.3 (0.4) | 0.29 (0.02)↓* | 36.9 (4.2)↓* | 5.9 (1.0)↓ | 6.1 (1.0)↓* | 1.7 (0.8)↓* |
1
Relative ovary weight: milligrams of ovary/gram of body weight
↑ or ↓ indicate significantly larger or smaller versus the combined hybrids with litters based on Wilcoxon rank sum test using raw p-values (p < 0.05).
*
indicates remained significant after Bonferroni correction α = 0.0083. SE, Standard Error.