Table 4.

Performance of characters in the DH population and its parents

Character	Male parent	Female parent	DH population	Coefficient of variation	Asymptotic significance of one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (P ks)
FL (cm)	23.19 ± 3.70**	34.08 ± 3.90**	25.37 ± 11.55	45.57 %	0.159
FW (mm)	6.82 ± 1.12**	2.20 ± 0.25**	5.86 ± 2.00	34.03 %	0.277
W (mg)	78.43 ± 16.66**	39.99 ± 7.22**	75.40 ± 43.24	57.35 %	0.398
FT (μm)	33.38 ± 1.96**	26.25 ± 1.77**	32.78 ± 6.89	20.43 %	0.758
LGR (%)	17.06 ± 1.06**	20.17 ± 0.94**	16.64 ± 4.84	29.07 %	0.944
WGR (%)	34.86 ± 2.74**	24.20 ± 2.00**	30.31 ± 7.02	23.16 %	0.057

Data are the mean ± SD (n = 30); t tests were used to analyze differences between parents; **highly significant (P ≤ 0.01)