Table 3.

Estimated significance of strain, age, sex and their interactions on 12 quantitative morphological traits in the B6/D2 diallel cross, estimated by ANOVA.

Morphological phenotype	Strain	Age	Sex	Strain:Age	Strain:Sex	Age:Sex	Strain:Age:Sex
Body mass	0.0116	0.0399	0.2056	0.0003	0.1620	0.6681	0.8558
Femur length	0.0187	0.3237	0.8372	0.0014	0.1958	0.4186	0.3182
Skull length	0.0002	0.0312	0.9936	0.0356	0.0102	0.8402	0.0431
Skull width	0.0049	0.3792	0.4391	0.2621	0.8137	0.4446	0.8993
Thyroid cartilage volume	0.0045	0.0570	0.7983	0.1013	0.6366	0.3572	0.3717
First tracheal ring volume	0.0753	0.0585	0.5145	0.8565	0.4062	0.2107	0.1384
Trachea diameter	0.3390	0.8370	0.3540	0.6710	0.4390	0.3960	0.6030
Cricoid cartilage volume	0.5618	0.0862	0.1651	0.3255	0.3034	0.1747	0.4250
TA muscle volume	0.4420	0.6190	0.4000	0.3620	0.7690	0.2880	0.9080
LCA muscle volume	0.0314	0.4348	0.2033	0.4609	0.8954	0.8689	0.3682
CT muscle volume	0.1970	0.6280	0.8100	0.3530	0.6820	0.7880	0.6410
Arytenoid cartilage volume	0.5430	0.3900	0.8740	0.5010	0.7810	0.7430	0.3840

Significant values (p ≤ 0.05) are shown in bold, suggestive values (p ≤ 0.1) are underlined.