Table 5. Phenotypic differences of the birds from the F2 resource population used to create pools for miRNA and mRNA deep sequencing*.
| High group |
Low group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample | AbFW (g) | AbFP (%) | Sample | AbFW (g) | AbFP (%) |
| H-1 | 90.38 | 5.28 | L-1 | 25.60 | 1.66 |
| H-2 | 119.90 | 5.79 | L-2 | 23.00 | 1.72 |
| H-3 | 107.04 | 5.85 | L-3 | 26.22 | 1.84 |
| H-4 | 72.65 | 5.15 | L-4 | 23.28 | 1.79 |
| H-5 | 87.30 | 5.62 | L-5 | 18.90 | 1.44 |
| H-6 | 66.64 | 6.49 | L-6 | 34.50 | 1.80 |
| Mean ± SD | 90.65 ± 20.17** | 5.70 ± 0.48** | Mean ± SD | 25.25 ± 5.21 | 1.71 ± 0.14 |
*AbFW: abdominal fat weight; AbFP: percentage of AbFW to eviscerated weight.
**P < 0.01 when compared with the mean in the Low group.