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Table 5.

Effects of mealworm larvae supplementation on villus height and width, crypt depth, and epithelial thickness in jejunum at d 35 of age.^a

Variable	Dietary treatments
Variable	Control	TM7.5	TM15	TM22.5	TM30	SEM
Villus height (μm)	30^c	32^bc	31^bc	33^ab	36^a	0.68
Crypt depth (μm)	6^b	6^b	7^ab	7^ab	9^a	0.50
Villus width (μm)	10.0^a	9.0^a	8.5^ab	8.3^ab	6.8^b	0.08
Epithelial thickness (μm)	10^b	20^a	20^a	20^a	10^b	3.5

TM, Tenebrio molitor; SEM = standard error of mean.

^a-c values in the same row not sharing a common superscript differ (P < 0.05).

Data are means of 4 replicate cages with 2 birds/pen.