Table 2.

Effects of CWF and bLAD lighting on food intake (g /100 g body weight daily), water intake (mL/100 g body weight daily), and animal growth rates (g/d) in C3H, C57BL/6, and BALB/c male and female mice during maintenance phase

	C3H				C57BL/6				BALB/c
	CWF		bLAD		CWF		bLAD		CWF		bLAD
	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F
Food	19.88 ± 0.17	20.93 ± 0.13a	18.56 ± 0.09a,b	19.55 ± 0.06a-c	21.09 ± 0.23a,c,d	22.02 ± 0.22a-e	21.44 ± 0.18a-d,f	22.18 ± 0.26a-g	19.26 ± 0.12a-h	22.46 ± 0.16a-g	19.66 ± 0.19b-h	22.10 ± 0.17a-e,g,i,k
Water	19.11 ± 0.06	19.13 ± 0.10	19.62 ± 0.07a,b	19.87 ± 0.11a-c	18.49 ± 0.25a-d	20.82 ± 0.29a-e	16.22 ± 0.24a-f	19.46 ± 0.30a-g	16.67 ± 0.19a-h	18.64 ± 0.13a-e,g	16.93 ± 0.13b-f	19.08 ± 0.17c-g,i-k
Growth	0.220 ± 0.035	0.150 ± 0.0180a	0.111 ± 0.001a,b	0.071 ± 0.001a-c	0.146 ± 0.020a,c,d	0.113 ± 0.021a,b,d,e	0.147 ± 0.014a,c,d,f	0.099 ± 0.010a-g	0.120 ± 0.020a-e,g,h	0.074 ± 0.017a-i	0.113 ± 0.021a-e,h-j	0.070 ± 0.011a-i,k

F, female; M, male

Values represent means ± 1 SD (n = 30/group; that is, 30 males and 30 females in each lighting environment per strain)

^aP < 0.05 compared with value for C3H mice in male CWF control group.

^bP < 0.05 compared with value for C3H mice in female CWF control group.

^cP < 0.05 compared with value for C3H mice in male bLAD experimental group.

^dP < 0.05 compared with value for C3H mice in female bLAD experimental group.

^eP < 0.05 compared with value for C57BL/6 mice in male CWF control group.

^fP < 0.05 compared with value for C57BL/6 mice in female bLAD experimental group

^gP < 0.05 compared with value for BALB/c mice in male CWF control group.

^hP < 0.05 compared with value for BALB/c mice in male experimental control group.