Table 1.
Body weight gain (g), feed intake (FI, g), and feed efficiency (FE, gain/FI) of pedigree broiler males (PedM) exhibiting high FE and low FE phenotypesa.
| n | Body wt. gain (g) | Feed intake (g) | Feed efficiency (g gain/g feed intake) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MICROARRAY (Kong et al., 2011) and RNAseq (Bottje et al., 2017)b | ||||
| PedM High FE | 6 | 641 ± 20* | 973 ± 33 | 0.659 ± 0.011* |
| PedM Low FE | 6 | 485 ± 17 | 1048 ± 34 | 0.462 ± 0.006 |
| PROTEOMICS (Kong B. et al., 2016)b | ||||
| PedM High FE | 4 | 660 ± 18* | 1019 ± 21 | 0.648 ± 0.007* |
| PedM Low FE | 4 | 491 ± 26 | 1075 ± 45 | 0.456 ± 0.006 |
a
Values represent the mean + SE.
b
The same muscle tissues (n = 6/group) were analyzed in the microarray and RNAseq studies and a subset of the same muscle tissues (n = 4/group) were analyzed in the proteomics.
*
Mean value is greater (P < 0.05).