. 2016 Oct 25;53(4):274–283. doi: 10.2141/jpsa.0150133

Table 3. Effect of different sources of dietary Se on growth performance and relative tissue weights in broiler chickens under thermoneutral or high ambient temperature.

	thermo-neutral temperature (22±1°C)			high ambient temperature (35±1°C)			P-value
	control	Nano-Se	SS	control	Nano-Se	SS	Se	T	Se×T
Body weight gain (g)	830.12±40.15^a	760.14±46.87^a	739.05±32.85^ab	563.07 ± 12.20^b	653.82±43.19^ab	598.34±25.61^b	0.5435	<0.0001	0.0740
Feed intake (g/15 days)	1306.40±39.29^a	1158.60±27.30^ab	1224.60±44.68^ab	1051.80±20.83^b	1054.50±87.36^b	987.00±28.12^b	0.0490	<0.0001	0.3763
Feed conversion ratio	1. 59±0.06^b	1.54±0.06^b	1.66±0.03^ab	1. 87±0.02^a	1.61 ± 0.03^b	1.66±0.10^ab	0.0016	0.0013	0.0014
Breast muscle (g/100 g body weight)	15.96±0.19^ab	18.13±1.12^a	16.18±0.56^ab	12.31±0.45^c	16.06±0.97^ab	13.37±0.64^bc	0.0407	0.0002	0.5822
Abdominal fat (g/100 g body weight)	0.69±0.07^b	0.58±0.17^b	0.69±0.08^b	1.40±0.12^a	0.69±0.05^b	1.30±0.19^a	0.0074	0.0001	0.0561
Spleen (g/100 g body weight)	0.12±0.01^ab	0.16±0.01^a	0.13±0.02^ab	0.09±0.01^b	0.12±0.01^ab	0.10±0.01^ab	0.0212	0.0035	0.9999
Bursa (g/100 g body weight)	0.32±0.02^a	0.36±0.03^a	0.29±0.03^ab	0.13±0.02^c	0.31 ± 0.02^a	0.16±0.03^bc	0.0005	<0.0001	0.0701
Thymus (g/100 g body weight)	0.45±0.03^ab	0.56±0.04^a	0.41±0.04^ab	0.19±0.04^c	0.49±0.07^a	0.26±0.06^bc	0.0006	0.0014	0.1582

Values are means±SEM. Different letters indicate significant differences (P<0.05).